We go to those news articles that say, oh, Kelly Clarkson lost fans, and we show them these graphics. We are mighty. There are a lot of people who make a lot of money in the record biz who try to do what we are in the process of doing. They fail, a lot, and they still get paid a butt ton, for failing to do what we did. We're the most powerful street team in the world. Back in the old days, people liked labels, they had some legitmacy. People trusted them. People trust Ron Paul now.
RP Supporters buy CD of Kelly Clarkson to show their support
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We go to those news articles that say, oh, Kelly Clarkson lost fans, and we show them these graphics. We are mighty. There are a lot of people who make a lot of money in the record biz who try to do what we are in the process of doing. They fail, a lot, and they still get paid a butt ton, for failing to do what we did. We're the most powerful street team in the world. Back in the old days, people liked labels, they had some legitmacy. People trusted them. People trust Ron Paul now.
No. We need to think about giving her money to do something else for us. And more acts. Pay them. How many stories did we get on this Kelly Clarkson stuff? A lot. And if we hit #1, that would be amazing. #2 is also amazing. One night of tweeting gets her this. Kelly Clarkson should be treated like a tv station or the USPS. Not like "one of the rich people that we want to give a lot of money to." She is giving us value.
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Yea, Adele sold 399,000 last week and was #1 on Billboard. There is no way we could get Kelly to #1 on Billboard. But, Amazon, if we buy 50-100 more albums we could.
Agreed there is value. All these positive news mentions in the media are worth more than the $10-$12 to buy her album. And some articles in places where Ron Paul's name has never been mentioned before, so there was reach to new people as well. I saw a perez hilton link talking about Ron Paul and Kelly Clarkson. Now that's an audience we've never tapped into before, LOL. The point is #1 it created great publicity, #2 it got his name mentioned with new audiences #3 it reversed some BACKLASH from some RP haters that tried to shut her down and possibly other celebrities from coming out in public support of him. In fact, it took that backlash and we made it a huge positive.
It was definitely a worthy cause IMHO, and hey we are going to get a music CD or itunes song out of it and who knows maybe if she feels some love coming from the RP corner, she might give RP some more nods in the future.
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I wish, I bet she wishes that she had never said it and her label and agent are probably chastising her right now. Entertainment industry isn't too kind to Repubs. It'll be interesting to see how she is welcomed at her concerts in the future though hopefully she won't get booed. We are big but not that big.
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I bought the new Kelly Clarkson CD last night.
To those who don't understand why it was important for us to show support for Miss Clarkson you should consider that we have proven to the world that we have the power of a lobby and for better or worse lobbies have a tremendous amount of power in American politics.
To those who don't understand why it was important for us to show support for Miss Clarkson you should consider that we have proven to the world that we have the power of a lobby and for better or worse lobbies have a tremendous amount of power in American politics.
I disagree. Ron Paul is not a normal Republican, and the anti-Drug War stance alone would make him a great deal of friends in the music industry. And I'm sure it has, they are just not as public about it as we'd like. That could soon change.
As far as controversy and media attention, the music industry is very savvy in that regard. Stars from Alice Cooper to Kiss to Madonna to rappers have thrived on controversy.
The timeframe of being a #1 hit music star in our modern culture is usually quite limited. At any time, she could go into the normal fade in the fickle market of public opinion. That has nothing to do with her considerable talent, it is just how the industry works. 20 years from now, she might still be doing concerts and have 6 more albums behind her, but the concerts will be relatively small and she will be expected to mostly play her big hits from the past 10 years, no matter how good her later work is.
Against that reality, Kelly did something impressive from a publicist's standpoint...she appealed to a very significant but undiscovered niche market, and garnered a great deal of free publicity. More importantly, she won the genuine respect of several million people, a degree of respect that doesn't come easy. This isn't the tiresome liberal posturing of Bono or Sting or Geldof that has been done to death.
I could write a lot more, but the long and short of it is that this is going to do a lot to sustain Kelly's career, because we are the future. And I'm very glad for her.
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