So I was watching the new Pussycat Dolls video today and I saw how they started the video by featuring a bunch of cellphones (made by samsung, as the obviously displayed logo told me) playing the song in a subway station, which they all danced to. Then I surfed and saw the Fergie video for Fergalicious and noticed for the first time that at the end of the video they start grooving to music coming out of the same phone, for no reason! They even have all these really obvious “product shots.” You can almost here the editor counting: “1 mississippi, 2 mississippi, 3 mississippi.” And it’s not even “contextual” they’re just holding up the phone for the camera.
Universal (the label both these acts are on) doesn’t broadcast these videos, Much and other places do and we have to pay them to show them. So not only is Uni making money on us showing them, they’re making money on just having the video at all. Devious labels, they’re the work of the devil, no question.