In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Metallica drummer, Lars Ulrich talks about embracing online album distribution.

In summary, Lars Ulrich comes full circle, telling Rolling Stone readers how Metallica is now ready to embrace the world of internet album distribution, much in contrast to Metallica’s groundbreaking lawsuit against Napster and public criticism of peer to peer file sharing networks and practices. Now it seems Metallica is eager to jump on the web distribution bandwagon. Could this be they are concerned with their mediocre aging success and lack of radio airplay for their new tunes? Could it be that they are now learning that the only way to grab the album-and-merchandise buying generation of kids with disposable income is to get to them through the internet? I think this trend-following quote from the article says enough:

“We’ve been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor and in twenty-seven years or however long it takes for the next record, we’ll be looking forward to everything in terms of possibilities with the Internet.”

Metallica first marketed themselves by handing out their tapes for free so that friends could copy them and spread the word. That’s how they got to be so big in the first place! So I’m sorry Lars, but Metallica lost my media dollar when your outcry against the very practice that made you famous proved how the band has turned into the hypocritical Metallica money machine.

The 2008 CMT Music Awards were hosted by Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus. It was a shockingly revealing award show. I’m not a fan of most Country music, but I had to watch this one, just to see what miss Miley Cyrus was wearing. Since she was on the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana, on almost every award show she has attended her outfits have been very revealing. From short dresses and skirts, to shirts and dresses with a little too much cleavage showing. Yes, she is fifteen years old, and yes, she is in the music scene, so she must keep up with people like Taylor Swift and such. But she is also a role model for young children. “Hannah Montana” doesn’t dress like that, but Miley Cyrus does. If small children under the age of 10 are watching TV and a person they want to be just like one day comes on and they are wearing bootie shorts and a tube top, don’t you think the child would want to dress like that as well? Having a little sister and a younger cousin, both a fan of Miley Cyrus, makes it tough not to care about stars with young fans, and dressing the way some of them do. Lots of people rag on Miley because she talks funny, or because she drinks ketchup straight from the bottle, but the thing is, that doesn’t effect you in anyway. It may gross you out, but thats it.

Dressing with short dresses, low cut shirts, small shorts, and small shirts does effect some people. I mean honestly, what kind of STRONGLY Christian parents allow their WORLD FAMOUS CHILD to dress like that to a live television award show being viewed by millions? What kind of normal parent would let their kid out in public wearing bootie shorts or a really short and low-cut dress for that matter? Thanks to all these lovely people who dress like this now, all of the children of the future will be dressing like hookers as well.

A bit of advice:Get longer Skirts, shirts, dresses, shorts, and all clothing in general!

-Loula

Loula is a guest writer for Random Review Crew. More of her life’s observations can be found at loulaspace.com