Word: sells
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...unlikely that we're motivated by an intense hatred of Yale. The anti-Yale passions of last week are largely contrived and superficial. Unlike our friends in New Haven, the rivalry rarely occupies our thoughts during the other 51 weeks of the year. Cambridge merchants don't regularly sell "Yale Sucks" T-shirts and jokes and insults about Yale are about as common in campus discourse as praise for randomization or the Core program...
Success doesn't require a gaudy debut. Jewel's debut sold 1,000 copies its first week; it went on to sell 6.2 million. Ruffhouse Records' head, Chris Schwartz, says CDs that survive this fall will need "something special." Here's what they're offering...
...Tuesday, Brooks will do a closed-circuit performance that will be beamed to 2,300 Wal-Marts across the country; the next day he'll do a one-hour special on NBC, taking questions from fans via telephone and e-mail. Garth's goal: to sell 1 million copies in one week. And then he wants to shoot fire out of his eyes like a god. (Just joking about that last part...
...addition, these self-congratulatory songs are still centered around confrontational relationships, primarily between the band and their potential fans. In "We Care," the lyrics are almost whiney, addressing the audience, "Thanx for calling us sell outs," and "We always thought you liked our band/I'm not talkin' about everybody/I'm sorry to waste a song." Similarly, in "The Kids Don't Like It," the singer complains that "We tried to do something new/It may sound real good/But I don't think we're getting through." The singer directs resentment at the "kids," who in all fairness should be showering...
Werts does have some reasonable criticism of fan mentality. He notes that "`Sell Out' [from Turn the Radio Off] was making fun of kids who condemned No Doubt and Sublime for selling out. You see No Doubt and Sublime on MTV and hear them on the radio. You shouldn't not like bands simply because they're on the radio. You should be happy that good bands get played on the radio so you can listen to good stuff instead of the crap they usually put on." And he adds, "I don't think we are really expressing resentment against...