A middle finger to MTV?
“MTV is killing me.”
German indie pop newcomer Amos calls the song his silent protest. That is, to make the audience aware how MTV revels on commercialism.
As if we don’t know the deal behind MTV, right? But I am afraid he has all the right to say it.
European acts like him aren’t the No. 1 priority for tomorrow’s party in Munich.
On his MySpace page, he offers everyone to download the single for free, encourages everyone to buy the shirt and the gratis stickers that show your support to his cause.
He attacks MTV’s metamorphosis into a giant market of “lifestyle-ringtone-homeshopping-channel it has become.”
According to his website his “doors will stay shut for one man whose latest song is striking the nerve of millions of outraged musicians and music lovers.”
As a self-styled emperor of pop, he promises to bring back the style into its proper place– a proper music “doing without any razzmatazz, evocative of Quincy Jones work for the early Michael Jackson.”
Go figure.
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