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File This Under WTF – Kittens and Zombies!

Dyon Martin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:49:10 +0000

We aren’t sure if you’ve encountered this video on the net yet so we wanted to bring it to you. And if you are wondering what it’s all about, well Kittens and Zombies sums it up perfectly.

It’s not the quintessential video that you’ve come to expect from Music-Is-Life, but it is amusing and every now and then its great to have a laugh and a giggle. If this video offends you (and it might offend some kittens as the disclaimer says), we say don’t take it too seriously because you might not have guessed but no kittens were harmed in the making of this video …

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Dyon Martin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:59:23 +0000

Have you heard of the new Napster, oh wait I guess we should say Napster Clone? No, well we here at Music-Is-Life got your back so we wanted to keep you in the loop! It’s called Vye Music and comes directly from a 16-year Gold Coast kid who is promoting the downloading (can we say theft) of music with his new site. He goes on to say that Vye Music can be described as a “meta-search engine” that allows you to “discover, stream, share and download millions of tracks”.

If we take a look at this website Vye Music, we can see it looks like it’s a rushed attempt to make some quick dough. Do you see all those ads on the side? Personally we looked into what all the hub-bub is about and most articles are talking about it being a Napster or Kazaa Clone and has a very similar business model. BUT NOT SO FAST SHERLOCK, could what this kid (and his backers) actually be doing is racking in the bills from the ads?

Kazaa and Napster back in the day were made to share music. They believed in the concept of a free space where people could share music that had been bought with others with similar tastes. Their business model wasn’t to rake in the cash through millions of webpage ads. Napster even went so far as to fight in court for the free sharing of music. Of course they lost, as we all remember. What Vye is appearing to do though is not develop a community of sharing music. It looks like they know that the courts will chase them down. Come on!! how could they do a website that is so similar to ones that were already shut down unless their motives are something different?!

We think that Vye Music is cashing in while they can on a promising concept from our pasts. Not working for the artist, nor for the music community as a whole but milking everyone that believes in the united world of sound. Shame on them.

File this under WTF

Dyon Martin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:09:59 +0000

When we think of music conglomerates, music mills and all around music beasts, we can’t but think of American Idol. Now you guys might watch the show, and you might not. We watch the show because it happens to be interesting to watch unsigned artists vying for their shot at stardom. I mean you can’t deny that there have been some artists that have come from no where and become household topics of conversation. While we at Music-Is-Life don’t agree to the signing away of a year of their lives just for the chance and opportunity to be seen, touched, talked about and even pimped out, you can’t deny that some of these kids actually break away from their masters and become great in their own right. We actually like Kelly Clarkson, and we actually like Daughtry.

Before you get your knickers in a bunch and decide that we have lost all cred, what we are saying is that we respect the artist that comes from nothing, Kelly as a waitress, takes on the world and wins. Music-Is-Life is all about the underdog. So here is the WTF moment. Ellen DeGeneres is to be the Judge replacing Paula on A.I.

Take a look here at her video posting

We LOVE Ellen but as a music judge? And we loved loopy Paula too. But if you think about it, Paula did have a music and dancing background. We aren’t too sure that Ellen has that. Of course it will be entertaining to see Ellen give critiques, but really?? Ellen as a Music judge? Ellen could be doing one of her crazy funny jokes on all for us and not really gonna be the new judge or A.I. might just be crazy enough to hire a comedienne as a music judge. We guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Hmm that’s why we’ll file this under WTF