It's Friday

It's Friday!  The Rebecca Black video Friday has hit the 100 million YouTube views mark in one month.  This is faster than Justin Bieber's Baby achieved the same milestone.  He took 2 months and 8 days.  Earlier in the week we heard that  Glee will cover Friday in their prom episode.  Hey, it's Friday!

NBC Cluess When It Comes To Securing Music Rights

The Emmys opened with lots of energy.  Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, John Hamm, members of the TV show Glee, etc took a cue from Glee and performed Springsteen's Born To Run.  I can't officially show you the video because NBC is not allowed to use it online.  According to a post in Techdirt, NBC (they aired the awards show) only secured the rights to perform Born To Run in the show, therefore killing any viral spread of the opening through NBC.  Haven't we heard this story before?  In this day and age, how do you not secure online rights. I have no idea why that song was chosen, but it was fun and really got the audience hooked. The excitement waned after that number.  Jimmy Fallon continued to sing.  He was personally annoyed that it wasn't "officially" online.  He told Variety that it could have been worth half a million hits to NBC. He worked hard on it and it's a good commercial for NBC and just pay for the rights.  I tallied what I could find of unofficial postings on YouTube and as of noon I found 411,211 hits.  Guess Fallon was pretty close in his estimate. 

Here is the unofficial video posting:

Liggers and Banarama

A few days ago, the discussion between T'Boo and I turned to liggers. The British press referred quite often to the ladies of Bananarama as being the ultimate liggers. After this discussion, I heard Robert DeNiro's Waiting.  I don't think I've heard that song since it was released. What made this band so successful? They aren't immensely talented. They had great style (let's wear hats, burlap sacks and vests and make it look good).  They were not coordinated.  They had a string of big hits.   I liked the early Bananarama when they worked with Fun Boy Three and did songs like It Ain"t What You Do and Really Saying Something.  I'm waiting for the cast of Glee to perform Cruel Summer.