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Re: a new audience for the music of Peggy Lee April 11, 2012 04:37AM |
I did notice this item a few days ago, and I confess to being taken aback by it. My immediate (re)action: to go around in search for information about Mobb Deep. I assumed that this was some unknown rap act who somehow had come up with a somewhat odd idea -- or who was otherwise maybe poking fun at "old time" music. To my surprise, it turns out that Mobb Deep is a pretty well-known hip hop duo, with even some sizable Billboard chart credits. Of particular interest to us is the fact that their most famous album is called The Infamous.
I did not get very far in my research, but I was left with the following impression: the MP3 album at Amazon was probably put together by a third party (not Mobb Deep, not Lee's estate) that appropriated both the beats of The Infamous album and the lyrics from a Peggy album of hits, combining them into this perverse concoction. After the success of Gramophonedzie's "Why Don't You," it is not entirely surprising to learn that someone picked Peggy's lyrics for this type of "beats-and-quotes" project.
At least, this item suggests that somewhere in the planet there is a hardcore hip hop fan that might also admire Peggy Lee's music a whole lot. As far of stuff of this type goes, it might not even qualify as bad.
I'm far more horrified at the endless string of illegitimate, cheap, crappy, carelessly made MP3 Peggy Lee downloads that Amazon is selling. (The same sad state of affairs holds true for many other well-known artists of the past, not just Peggy.) Most of those inferior Public Domain downloads are apparently made by companies or people out to make a buck as quickly and easily as possible ... Such bad quality material ultimately ends up hurting the artists on whose legacies those people are preying.
To expand on an idea suggested by Kevin above, I invite anyone so inclined to leave brief critical feedback under some of those low-quality MP3 releases at Amazon. Doing so would be a way of alerting less savvy buyers that they are better off avoiding such bottom-of-the-barrel product. (I have been planning to do so myself, for some time now. But I've kept postponing it, in part because Amazon now has so many of those products that tackling them, one by one, can be overwhelming, and in part because the discography remains my current priority.)
Ivan
I did not get very far in my research, but I was left with the following impression: the MP3 album at Amazon was probably put together by a third party (not Mobb Deep, not Lee's estate) that appropriated both the beats of The Infamous album and the lyrics from a Peggy album of hits, combining them into this perverse concoction. After the success of Gramophonedzie's "Why Don't You," it is not entirely surprising to learn that someone picked Peggy's lyrics for this type of "beats-and-quotes" project.
At least, this item suggests that somewhere in the planet there is a hardcore hip hop fan that might also admire Peggy Lee's music a whole lot. As far of stuff of this type goes, it might not even qualify as bad.
I'm far more horrified at the endless string of illegitimate, cheap, crappy, carelessly made MP3 Peggy Lee downloads that Amazon is selling. (The same sad state of affairs holds true for many other well-known artists of the past, not just Peggy.) Most of those inferior Public Domain downloads are apparently made by companies or people out to make a buck as quickly and easily as possible ... Such bad quality material ultimately ends up hurting the artists on whose legacies those people are preying.
To expand on an idea suggested by Kevin above, I invite anyone so inclined to leave brief critical feedback under some of those low-quality MP3 releases at Amazon. Doing so would be a way of alerting less savvy buyers that they are better off avoiding such bottom-of-the-barrel product. (I have been planning to do so myself, for some time now. But I've kept postponing it, in part because Amazon now has so many of those products that tackling them, one by one, can be overwhelming, and in part because the discography remains my current priority.)
Ivan
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