Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When the rock 'n' roll pianist and former Ben Folds Five frontman recorded his new solo album, Way to Normal, he knew it would get leaked to the Internet, so he went ahead and did it himself - well, sort of. This summer, Folds released six "fake" songs on the Internet and pretended that they were tracks off his album. The fake songs bore the same titles as tracks on the album, but contained completely different lyrics and music. The real Way to Normal dropped on Sept. 30; the fake versions are available wherever music is freely downloaded. Folds talked...
...made an album, but you also made a fake album. What's the deal with that...
...like any of the fake songs better than the original versions...
...wouldn't be wise for me to say since I'm promoting a new album. But I really do like the fake songs a lot, some of them rival what's on the record. It's just that the ones on the record are the ones the promotion beast is concentrating...
...price she was asking. As I walked away, I turned around to watch her and her co-worker giggle with excitement. I had been had.The scene above played out in a market typical of Shanghai: four- or five-floor “malls” filled with hundreds of fake-stuff-stalls, selling everything from North Face to Abercrombie to Coach to print shirts with lazy translations (one read, “Let’s Do The Dancing Team Beach Volleyball”).After the first week, these pseudo-Western products all begin to fade into the rest...