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Why I Support Covers

Things that make me tick #9: When people blindly follow the masses without even considering what they actually believe. Recently Youtuber David Choi's channel was taken down because music companies were flagging him for putting up covers of their songs. I don't really follow David so when the news hit I wasn't as zealous as his number 1 fans in protesting but I understood how they might have felt. In light of the David Choi's current situation I wanted to talk about the controversy of making covers. So I'm going to give an explanation as to why I support covers (i.e. I'm not a blind follower). I don't think companies should penalize youtubers for covering their songs. The Reasons    First off Youtubers give a lot of well known and unknown artist exposure. I was listening to the Lemonade cover  and freaking loved it. When I listen to covers I go back to find the original and compare it. If I loved the cover 9 times out of 10 I'll love the origi...

Asian Artist in America Update

There are a few Asian Artist that are trying to make it and there seems to be potential. Crown J was recently interviewed by Atlanta's Blackvibe online magazine.  Who bought the crappy mic? lol Crown pointed out something that's frustrated me about the Korean pop culture for a while now. To become famous you have to go through corporate business crap. I'm not trying to offend anyone who loves K-pop but I don't agree with the whole corporate way. To me that's like being a sellout. They use your music to make money which is ok but they do it through making the artist "idols". :banghead: 2PM fans know that Jay Park has left the band and has come to the states. So what's he up to now?   A few weeks back he made a Youtube page and posted his rendition of "Nothing On You" by B.O.B . <--click there. I'm going to keep my opinion of how he did to myself and let you judge. lol He says he has plans to continue in the music business I be...