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Grumpy in the Digital Age

Posted on May 26, 2005 by Guest Contributor

MelanieLeaving aside the legality/morality of downloading mp3s, I have one major beef: Teenagers or otherwise culturally unfamiliar sorts mislabeling artists.

Not all African-American female vocalists from the ’60s, ’70s or ’80s are Aretha Franklin. Similarly, there were women other than Janis Joplin and Joan Baez recording folksy, bluesy roots back in the day. (Not to mention Janis is not Joan and Joan is not Janis. If there’s a duet with Bob Dylan, it’s 99.9999% Joan, since they mostly lived on the same coast and slept together.)

No one other than Melanie Safka would have ever wanted to record “Brand New Key.” The worst I’ve found so far was Scottish, Christian rockers the Proclaimers one-hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” attributed to the Pretenders. Yeah, because female Pretenders front Chrissie Hynde sounds so much like a pair of young Scottish lads.

Except for honest-to-God concert bootlegs, the original ripper must have some sort of CD or source media with an album insert showing at least the artist’s name in front of him/her, and, I don’t know, maybe a little thing called Internet access. So, how does the mislabeling happen?

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  1. feeling entropy says:
    May 26, 2005 at 1:15 pm

    No idea, but in the days of Napster I recall downloading about 7Million mislabeled songs…? Who does this?!

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  2. tribster says:
    May 27, 2005 at 7:39 am

    Not to sound rude but…Speak for yourself…One time i for the life of me could not locate a song from the 90’s that i heard on a finacial commercial(did not hear it there first..just reminded me of it)but it only played music no lyrics so one day i had a clue from a movie trailer and it was this(45) try as hard as i could with the vast resources of the internet and Google(which helped on others) nothing so i went on one “so-called” P2P did a search for said song using the search term “45” By chance someonemisnamed it and there it was!

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  3. Anonymous says:
    June 27, 2005 at 8:49 pm

    Ummm.. RECORD COMPANIES do this, they post mislabeled songs to mislead, misdirect.

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  4. re: Proclaimers says:
    September 1, 2005 at 4:04 pm

    Don`t you know this song is a Scottish National Anthem….loved by lots of Scots people……….They love it, it`s great!!!!!

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  5. Anonymous says:
    December 21, 2005 at 2:01 pm

    except janis did sing brand new key

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  6. Anonymous says:
    April 25, 2007 at 9:57 am

    you’re wrong

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