{"id":1538,"date":"2008-07-03T23:13:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T03:13:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-09T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T10:50:44","slug":"record-companies-still-run-by-morons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/record-companies-still-run-by-morons\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Companies: Still Run by Morons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There’s an AM radio show out of Seattle that I podcast called Too Beautiful To Live<\/strong><\/a>. Last month, the show ran a contest called the TBT-Ella-Ella Watch, to decide on the summer single of 2008. Out of several worthy contenders (“American Boy” by Estelle and Kanye, and Snoop’s bizarre collaboration with Willie Nelson, “My Medicine,” being the other good ones), the clear winner was “The Stoop”<\/a><\/strong> by Little Jackie<\/strong><\/a>. This is a friggin’ glorious song, a sleek modern recasting of the old Invictus Records<\/strong> sound, circa 1971, by a Brooklyn-based duo consisting of neo-soul singer Imani Coppola<\/strong> (who had some solo hits in the 90s) and producer Adam Pallin<\/strong>. (The album, also called The Stoop<\/em>, comes out Tuesday.)<\/p>\n

Little Jackie,“The Stoop”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, this week there was a shocking and unexpected development in the story, which was that when the show’s producer and co-host, Jen Andrews<\/strong>, called Little Jackie’s label, S-Curve Records<\/strong>, to tell them the good news that Little Jackie’s song had won the listener poll, the PR person’s response was basically to flip out and demand to know how she had even heard the song (remember, the album isn’t out yet), and then to say that “The Stoop” wasn’t going to be released as a single.<\/p>\n

Seriously, people. How is this song not a single?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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