Boycott EMI.

[DavidRoss]

(I'm not going to elaborate, other than mentioning that Rush Limbaugh thought it would be a good move to call a woman who uses birth control a slut).

Part of the thrill, indeed, is the mass effect. Buying, and reading, the same book as your girlfriends buy, and read, and then having a giggle about it.

To be honest and accurate, Rush Limbaugh thought it would be a humorous but telling way to make a point by ASKING what we call women who expect others to pay for her to have sex. He answered his own question, saying that we call such women "sluts."

The issue was not birth control or access to birth control, as the hyper-partisan press reported it, but rather the right of people not to be forced into slavery by government policies attempting to rob them of their earnings in order to pay for third parties to behave in ways they object to on religious grounds.

Speaking of the thrill of the mass effect: holding the same blind prejudices as your girlfriends and saying nasty things about people who don't share them.

[Brian]

I'm splitting off the Rush Limbaugh discussion so we can all go back to talking about 50-year-old women getting off to Thomas Tallis. 

[DavidRoss]

I'm splitting off the Rush Limbaugh discussion so we can all go back to talking about 50-year-old women getting off to Thomas Tallis. 

Anything that helps 50-year-old women get off can't be all bad!

[Brian]

Anything that helps 50-year-old women get off can't be all bad!

You know, this actually is making me change my whole mind about 50 Shades in general!

[Madiel]

Yeah. Like EMI is the only record company that's ever done a shameless/desperate tie-in with something via an extremely tenuous link...

[North Star]

Yeah. Like EMI is the only record company that's ever done a shameless/desperate tie-in with something via an extremely tenuous link...

The question is with what they have tried to tie the music with, not how.

[Opus106]

The question is with what they have tried to tie the music with, not how.

Something shameless, as per Brian*.

The way I see it, it could have the effect of increasing the exposure of some wonderful music to a wider audience. This compilation, apart from the cover/theme, is no different than any other (of classical music) but I think this will be bought by a lot more people, in relative terms, during the time when the book is riding the wave of hype.


*I know, I know; it's all in jest. Or is it?

[jut1972]

The Tallis Scholars have already reported a big surge in sales.

[Scarpia]

Yeah. Like EMI is the only record company that's ever done a shameless/desperate tie-in with something via an extremely tenuous link...

Please.  There is nothing tenuous about the link.  At least some of the music in the CD is featured in the novel.  And I see nothing shameless or desperate in EMI making money based on readers of the book being curious about the music that is described.

The Tallis Scholars had this to say:

Director Peter Philips said: 'I haven't read Fifty Shades of Grey but I am most grateful to the author for introducing so many new listeners to the musical sensation that is Thomas Tallis's Spem in alium.'

[Leon]

Not only is there nothing wrong with this compilation of music referenced in the novel(s) - but there is nothing wrong with the books themselves.  Not my cup of tea, mind you, but from what I understand they are well-written and have found a large readership.  Bringing to this large readership a CD of works from the Classical repertory, connected to a book they enjoy, is not a bad thing - imo.

Calling for a boycott based on this marketing effort by EMI tells me that there is a higher twit-quotient on GMG than I would prefer.

[North Star]

I don't mind the book, or that it introduces people to classical music.

[listener]

Selection may have originated in misreading 'Sperm in alium?

[eyeresist]

Calling for a boycott based on this marketing effort by EMI tells me that there is a higher twit-quotient on GMG than I would prefer.

I don't think the OP was being entirely serious!

[Brian]

I don't think the OP was being entirely serious!

Indeed, I'm surprised to see someone took me seriously. I've listened to at least 5 EMI recordings since starting this thread.

[Karl Henning]

Now I find out he was kidding?!

[North Star]

Indeed, I'm surprised to see someone took me seriously. I've listened to at least 5 EMI recordings since starting this thread.

[Brian]

By the way, the 50 Shades album is now available on Naxos Music Library!

[Karl Henning]

Not only is there nothing wrong with this compilation of music referenced in the novel(s) - but there is nothing wrong with the books themselves.  Not my cup of tea, mind you, but from what I understand they are well-written and have found a large readership.  Bringing to this large readership a CD of works from the Classical repertory, connected to a book they enjoy, is not a bad thing - imo.

Calling for a boycott based on this marketing effort by EMI tells me that there is a higher twit-quotient on GMG than I would prefer.

Did this fellow really deactivate his account over this?

And he is calling some of us twits?

[Brian]

Did this fellow really deactivate his account over this?

And he is calling some of us twits?

His account was active when I posted about an hour ago! And he was called "Arnold".

[Mirror Image]

Did this fellow really deactivate his account over this?

And he is calling some of us twits?

Yeah, how...irrational.