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Did anyone else get this email? It smells of pure evil.
How's it going? I'm just getting in contact to introduce myself and see if you would be interested in working with me in the near future and beyond. Basically, my name is Chris, and I am the digital marketing assistant at Parlophone (EMI) based in Hammersmith, London (UK). I came across your audio blogging site when you recently blogged about one of our bands, The Good The Bad And The Queen.
We have a number of emerging artists on our label, and also on Regal (the smaller label which deals with up and coming artists) and are looking at the best ways to expose them across the internet. I wondered if you would be interested in working with us in a small way, we would send out exclusive unreleased audio and press/shots from the new records which are coming out in the near future, and you just carry on with what you are already doing with posting it and making it available for download for a limited amount of time. As already said, although we are a major label and responsible for huge artists such as Kylie, Coldplay etc, we do have a very committed A&R department which works with a lot of small underground emerging talent, the lifeblood of the industry, from the UK and overseas. This is the reason why I personally love working here as the industry would not be able to survive if not for the continuous source of original emerging talent from the underground.
It then goes on to ask for my address, name, email address and traffic stats... -
And now its posted twice, Elbo is playing games with me.
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I got this as well. I wasn't sure if I was going to respond - I probably will in the end.
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I didn't get it. I'm not sure it smells like pure evil, but I can tell you that I haven't had such great luck with labels. Even the two (smallish and medium-sized) ones that seemed to get it didn't really: they kept sending me new crappy tracks to pimp, but I wanted free reign to poke through their back catalogue.
MfR and some other mp3bloggers have had a better time with it. I've heard good things about working with small/niche labels, though it's not something I've actively pursued. -
I think a lot of the bloggers on here have recieved that evil.
I actually thought I would give him the benefit of the doubt about 6 months ago when I got the email and he has sent me mp3s of various up and coming releases. Nothing that has pressed any of my buttons yet though.
I know the majority of the others on here sent it straight to the recycle bin though ;)
-Tim -
I should add that with the new crappy tracks there was also the expectation that a) I'd post them and pretend to be excited about them and b) I was a PFC and they were a 4-star general. So it wasn't just that the music sucked, though that was certainly a problem, but also that they seemed to assume I had no free will or independent thought.
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This exact same dude sent the exact same email to some of our other peers a few months back and there were posts about it. Don't remember the particulars.
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He really wants his entire company domain address be place inside gmail filter. He should keep at it and see how fast he gets to gmail ban list.
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Ah, that's here: http://elbo.ws/vanilla/comments.php?DiscussionID=800&page=1
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The best part for me is that he says my post about The Good The Bad And The Queen led him to my site...I was told to remove those songs by EMI...and now they want to work with me? lol
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So EMI is officially the fool between the four majors eh?
maybe it's time to catalog their IP and put it right into akismet and bad behavior filter. -
I've actually been on EMI's list for a while now. He came through with two cuts from that The Good, The Bad, and The Queen album, as well as some from the new Yoko Ono (as an aside that yoko vs peaches cut was pretty sweet). Seems like a good dude to me and I've had no pressure to post anything from them. He asks that the links are only active for two weeks and that you post pre-order and band links. Nothing, too horrible.
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I haven't been pressured into posting anything yet either. I was really unimpressed with the Good, the Bad and the Queen, so I didn't post that and the others songs have been a bit average as well. I do listen to the stuff I'm (e)mailed though and Chris has always seemed happy to send the stuff for the usual blog it if you like it.
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i had that same email a while ago.
there's nothing essentially wrong with them adding to some kind of mp3 mailing list that I can see.... the only trouble is that if every blogger gets the same email & the same tracks sent to them, then everyone writes about the same thing. Which is shit.
Hence I tend to delete anything I think has been sent out en masse. I have enough to listen to as it is.... -
Also, yes it is strange that this has come from EMI, since they're the only label who've ever jumped down my throat at something i've posted.
I think they're saying 'we like bloggers.... as long as you post what we tell you to'.
So I tend to avoid EMI if I can. However they seemingly own on the quiet a vast number of 'indie' labels that you'd hope to be safer with.... -
EMI is in a flux. Within a very large organisation like that, specially during re-org. they are not going to have consistent policy.
It's bunch of chickens running around with head cut off. I seriously doubt their legal department is even connected to net PR.
so you have to create your own safety buffer. (post in a proxy server, link obfuscation, private side of the blog, etc)
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