Your headspace is in outerspace. It's keeping the world linked through the six degrees of seperation, or however many top friends you choose to display. How do you get your songs on myspace records anyway?
"Some people live their whole lives through myspace", my co-worker recently told me. Being a musician myself I admit that having my songs heard by music lovers around the globe, who may not have heard them otherwise, was appealing for a while. But then it sucks you in. It's like having an alter ego. Signing onto your id. Who saw my pictures?.. who reads my comments?. It's the equivalent to having a public email account where everyone can peer into your communications and hence formulate a idea of who you are based on the tidbits. And what's with the prvate accounts? Why don't you just stick to a private email account cyber people..... if you're gonna be all clandestine about it. I thought myspace was for making friends. And then there are the well known, financially successful musicians who "don't accept friend requests from bands" Well what kind of fucking musician are you anyway? Too good for all the others I suppose. An Archeologist friend of mine who doesn't have a myspace account says he wants to have an account where he's only friends with himself. It could be circular. He'd be his only friend.
So, on July 19th of 2006, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp bought Intermix, the company who started and used to own myspace, for $580 million dollars. Hmmmmm. For Fox, brands are the core content. Fox being the number one brand for all the sheep who tune into the watered down, rightwing brainwashing that we call news. News for those who don't choose to think for themselves. And now that Google and Murcoch's Fox Interactive Media have partnered up, each time you search for something on Google the first things you will see will be all things FOX. $900 million worth over a 3 year period! This benchmarks Murdoch's News Corp's stronghold on digital media. That was the point of buying myspace I suppose. Think of all the kids that spend their days on myspace. Start them early so they really never will think for themselves. Pretty soon we'll see ads on myspace leading our upcoming generation to all things Fox Interactive Media. Or maybe they are already there. I don't know because I cancelled my myspace account last week.
