Sábado 21 Jul 2007, 23h:34

You've finally done it. You've thought of a spectacular group idea and you want to pimp your group to the Last.familians. Now here comes the hard part, getting people to join. My minor in business has taught me that the most effective ways to advertise are on a blimp, fashioning crude fake explosive devices and strapping them under bridges, and the most effective method of all; firing a velcro-covered midget out of a cannon onto a velcro wall. But since this is the internet and you don't want to posting youtube links everywhere you need to use the tools Last.fm has provided.

So. which method would be considered more effective for advertising your newly made group.
1. Writing a well-written journal describing your group idea in 1200 words or less and linking the entry to a bunch of artists.
2. Visiting every last.fm member and spamming 'HEY U PLZ JOIN MY GROUP OR I'LL BE :((('
3. Spamming every single fucking artist shoutbox on the Last.fm Top 100 with a poorly written (and usually typo-ridden) advertisement.

If your answer was 3, please kill yourself with something sharp. If you have life insurance, I can give you Sub-Zero's number and he can uppercut you into a pit of spikes. Don't worry, he's got connections with the highstepping glitterati in Hades.

The previous paragraph may have offended you, you loser. It's alright to get angry. If you hear something on the radio you don't like, it's perfectly natural to want to visit their artist page and shout 'THIS GUY'S A LOAD OF SHIT LOLOLOLOL'. Go ahead, do it. I won't get angry. Very few read those shoutboxes anyways. I'm sure most of them have a sense of humor. There will be a small percentage who will read your flame and think you're an asshole, they may even call you a fag and mock your eternal love for Blog 27. Water off a duck's back, on to the next one I say. Anyone who hasn't at least thought about flaming an artist page is a liar. It's not in the cards to defy human nature.

So next time you visit an artist page and see someone all triflin' and talking shit, let it go. Ignorance is bliss.

Lastly, unmerged artists are a pain. There's so many artists that would have twice or three times the amount of listeners/plays if everyone got their tags right. But since that's a pipe dream, the last.fm staff should get around to merging them all. Musicbrainz integration will hopefully fix this problem.