+1. The cover art is horrible too. When I first saw it before the release, I hoped it'd be fake, but guess not.
I watched the NYU video, and it's sad what marketing music to preteens/teens can do. 
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+1. The cover art is horrible too. When I first saw it before the release, I hoped it'd be fake, but guess not.
I watched the NYU video, and it's sad what marketing music to preteens/teens can do. 
I don't really buy anything through iTunes anyway, unless there's no other way to get it. I still like to buy cds
I bought it for my wife about 4 hours ago.
1 song has completed all others have failed. That's my only purchase from Amazon cloud music in about a year.
Not too impressed, however the price (should I ever get the album) is great.
You need to give credit where credit is due. She beat out the Beatles for the most hits in a single album.
EDIT: I can't find the specific article where I read that and information on the internet is all over the place, but from a majority of sites I fact checked on she does indeed have the most number 1 hits from a single album.
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Something tells me that she sleeps just fine at night on a mattress stuffed with the $150m she's personally raked in in the past two years. And judging by her concert and how seriously she took the music, I don't question her integrity and devotion to the job. How's Norah doing? She still living on the lower east side? Does anyone notice, or did they all fall asleep listening to "The Fall"?
The dumb masses. Most people would not know good music if it hit them on the head. And it's a well known fact in the music industry: "You don't get rich by being good, you get rich by being popular". So release any old crap and market it very well and you have a winner.Musician, noun
1. a person who makes music a profession, especially as a performer of music.
She writes all of her own songs. She sings live every time. She's a classically trained pianist and dancer. She endlessly tours, appears, and promotes her songs and brand. She plays instruments on stage. It's pretty safe to say that, regardless of if you buy the albums or listen to it on the radio, she's about 1000x the musician that most "artists" out there are. Who exactly do YOU listen to that you call a "musician?"
She has her audiences and her fans. But for those of us who want a little class in our music we steer clear of her and look for something better.
Yes, I guess I focused on the "scared" part rather than the "iCloud will blow Amazon cloud storage away". But I guess my read on the recent Google and Amazon first-to-market rush is that both those companies are thinking that iCloud will be a very big deal. Personally, I am not sure of how great it will be since MobileMe was not the best thing Apple had done, but Google's and Amazon's scrambling makes me think that maybe Apple is going to release something really great.
For me, the selling point will be the ability to re-download whatever movie I want when on vacation without having to think about what I want to sync before hand. My music does not take the most room on my device -- it is movies and apps that take up my space -- I am hoping for something to provide cloud access to movies and application state more than anything.
But still your point is well taken -- I now get why people are downrating that comment so much.
To be fair, I'm sure that their servers are getting hit hard because of this.
I buy music from Amazon all the time, and downloads are usually fast with no issues.
I do not think so, Apple is a day late and a dollar short. Remember what Bill said to Steve, it does not matter who is better, it is who is FIRST!
The iPad is losing and the iPhone is flatlined, why, because Apple is not inovative, they keep playing the same old song, the iPod is IOS, the iPhone is IOS, the iPad is IOS, Mac OS X is IOS............
What is there virtual cloud, iCloud IOS?
A lot of people would argue that's precisely how Apple works too
nope, Apple does not release crap.
an Aliminum unibody MBP with a glass trackpad is not crap.
Really? You think she's sleeping just fine? http://www.safm.com.au/entertainment/music/popbuzz/blog/lady-gagas-backstage-breakdown-caught-on-camera/20110427-c44b.html
You can have all the fame and fortune in the world, but if your not happy with yourself, none of it matters.
I suppose if the logic is that you can be successful just by having a great marketting strategy in the music business, it's not unfeasible to apply the same logic to other businesses.
I do not think so, Apple is a day late and a dollar short. Remember what Bill said to Steve, it does not matter who is better, it is who is FIRST!
The iPad is losing and the iPhone is flatlined, why, because Apple is not inovative, they keep playing the same old song, the iPod is IOS, the iPhone is IOS, the iPad is IOS, Mac OS X is IOS............
What is there virtual cloud, iCloud IOS?
How is the iPad losing? And to whom?
I do not think so, Apple is a day late and a dollar short. Remember what Bill said to Steve, it does not matter who is better, it is who is FIRST!
The iPad is losing and the iPhone is flatlined, why, because Apple is not inovative, they keep playing the same old song, the iPod is IOS, the iPhone is IOS, the iPad is IOS, Mac OS X is IOS............
What is there virtual cloud, iCloud IOS?
You are waaaay wrong on that. Thats not even opinion. The iPad is failing? What? iPhone flatlined? Go troll elsewhere.
To be totally honest, it's not that hard to do anyway - the "official" Beatles albums (those released in the UK, as the band saw it), very rarely yielded even one single; 95% of their singles were standalones that never saw release on any of their 12 LPs/1 EP (I mention Magical Mystery Tour as an EP because it was Capitol in the US that added the many singles onto the second half). Please Please Me, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Revolver, Abbey Road and Let It Be were the only albums that had tracks released as singles, and even then the maximum number of singles yielded was a mere two (this is following their UK discography, not the butchered US one, remember) - so obviously, when Gaga releases some 5+ tracks from an album various singles she will clearly beat out The Beatles for "most hits in a single album".
Ah yeah, I saw that too. It was at the beginning of her HBO special, right before she went out and spent two hours singing her face off to about 25,000 adoring fans. Also, to put it in context, as tabloids often don't, the reason she was crying was because this was THE concert that she had worked toward her entire life: her very first headlining Madison Square Garden sold-out concert, and she came to see that she not only made it, but that she was a very lucky person for making it. She was overwhelmed, obviously, because this meant everything to her.
Great move by Amazon! Only made worse for Apple by the fact they don't seem to be honouring the 'Countdown to Born this Way' promotion!! Offering people the chance to buy at a discounted rate using 'complete my album' if you'd brought Edge of Glory and Hair!
Sounds great... only it ain't working and still showing full price!!
Sounds great... only it ain't working and still showing full price!!
So far as I can tell, it's primarily impatience coupled with poor feedback on the process from Amazon.
The process is that you buy the songs, then Amazon's ecommerce server uploads your individual copy of the song to the Amazon "Cloud Drive" server. That second step takes time. Amazon has to (legally) copy each person's individual file of their individual song up there individually to avoid the legal black hole that took down MP3.com (wherein proving you had bought a CD made the encoded files of that CD stored on their server available to you immediately).
It's a clunky process, and Amazon has to expect that people will go directly from buying something to playing it (duh), but they don't give ANY indication that that second step is not instantaneous. Hence, a lot of people go over there and see that only six of the 14 songs have uploaded yet, and freak out.
One explanation here is that Amazon's Cloud Drive upload service is just not specced to handle the mass of uploads they are getting by offering the new album from a popular artist for bubblegum money. Unfortunately, this is the first experience a whole slew of people will have of Cloud Drive, and it will be negative. Getting the music from "Cloud Drive" to my local iTunes player was another super-clunky step (I tried playing from the Cloud Player web service, but can't imagine ever listening to more than one or two songs like that ... the interface sucks like a bad copy of WinAmp/1998.
This combined with the fact that it looks like choosing Cloud Drive as the intermediary here means all my future Amazon music purchase will first have to go over there, and it means impulse music purchases are less likely to go through Amazon.
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Please, enlighten the unwashed losers of the world so that we may know where to find your temple, so that we may bring our personal music selections for your private endorsement. Otherwise, seriously, get over yourself.