Quote:I've started to wonder if some of the above stated negatives could be directly related to Kraig Fox's ouster as COO at CKx? He was, I believe, according to tHR, heavily active in promoting Haley before they changed up and sacked him. The new president that came in January, may have influenced the slowdown in Haley's promotion and that could have all tied in with Fox.
The
New York Times has an article about Fiona Apple today. It begins by relating...
Quote:About a year and a half ago, after she had completed the album she’ll release on June 19 — a collection of stripped-down, percussive songs that’s as passionate, smart and cutting as anything she’s done — Ms. Apple got so angry that she started walking up and down a hill near her home in Venice, Calif.
The album was in music-business limbo. Ms. Apple was delaying it until her label, Epic Records, found a new president. She had not made a new album since 2005 and didn’t want her work to be mishandled amid corporate disarray.
(05-30-2012, 10:44 AM)Flask Man Wrote: The mistake from a sales/marketing perspective was the long wait...The added months of darkness pushed Haley completely out of the public's consciousness, and her sales probably plummeted by 50% as a result.
If she rolled something out back in November she would have been lumped in with all the other Idols. Coming out with an album on her own timetable makes her seem more like an artist. It could be that letting people discover her on their own is part of the plan.
This is another excerpt from the Fiona Apple article:
Quote:Before she appeared at South by Southwest her manager, Andy Slater, said he told Epic Records: “ ‘I want you to do nothing.’ I said: ‘Don’t make any posters. Don’t make any cards. Don’t put out a single. Just don’t say anything. Let her play the show. It’s been a few years. Let kids go to the show, film the thing, put it on their blogs, and you don’t need to do anything.’ ” Almost immediately after her set amateur video clips were on YouTube.
Have you noticed many videos featuring Haley's songs are popping up on YouTube? And no "take down" notices. Hmm...
The Fiona Apple article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/arts/m...wheel.html