First in your first reply to me.. '...? Why do you need a letter for that? Your philosophy as expressed elsewhere is that we all have our own truth which is more authentic than that which can be verified by facts,..'
Here/there YOU ARE making assumptions that you know who/what I am and what I think merely by reading my posts. RIDICULOUS.
And YES I agree with you the record industry does buy chart positions... Which M being no fool (and probably why he )wants to continue with the 'record business' and not go 'DIY'. M has PLENTY of talent/fan base to sell records...But with out that 'muscle/money' to advertise and push the music into a larger arena.. Any artist won't get that kind of visibility.
I'll show you how I'm reading it..that makes me think this may not be the first 'letter' to Universal ...
'We are shocked that you have made no move this week to promote the
above song (download/special 7-inch/special CD) to support the people'...
'that you have made no move' To ME reads they are shocked that AFTER their first request that they/Universal didn't yet re-release or plan to re-release song
'Any other artist would be number 1 with this song RIGHT NOW.
Why are you doing nothing? There is no other song in modern music that
aptly supports the people of Paris.'
This part... is just funny... Seems M's emotions getting in the way because they have refused to re-release the song. Reasonable.
>AND ... I don't see HOW M/Boz can see /think that after the Paris events that Universal is gonna go running to their back catalog looking for a song that has 'Paris' in the title. They/Universal have bigger fish (their own) to fry..They were just concerned (as they should be) about their own stable of 'fresh faced' darlings. And how they
could profit(YES) from the Paris events... Of COURSE OF COURSE OF COURSE they want to be charitable and show they have a heart...But let's face it...THEY ARE a business. And M being a part and through the grinder of this 'business' has/and DOES play the 'game' and says what he MUST(or thinks he must) in order to look a valuable ASSET to the 'business'(a fine example of this IS the TYWTML /letter to Sanctuary).
Again...the way I read it...It seems this 'Boz letter' is the second reply to a request that was already refused.
Also the reason (I think)in this Boz letter no charity was mentioned... I can assume(and do) that it being a tribute to the events..then it GOES WITHOUT SAYING.
Again I agree with you...
'They were probably trying to avoid "UNIVERSAL FLOGS OLD MORRISSEY SONG FOR PROFIT IN WAKE OF TRAGEDY" stories,'