en https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v232/ http://www.newciv.org/news/Images/ncnicon2-s.gif https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v232/ 88 31 OrgSpace NewsLog 1.87 Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:07:01 UT Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:07:01 UT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 180 https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000232-000602/#com78691 2007-02-07 18:07: comment by tlingel on "arly-omont by amini antoko":<br/>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570730,00.html<br/><br/>amini grew up in a tiny town deep in the rench countryside called arly-omont. e stood out, in part because everybody stands out in arly-omontpop. 432but partly because amini is black. here aren't a lot of black people in arly-omont.<br/><br/>amini wanted to be a hip-hop artist. t's a long way from arly-omont to outh entral .., but he recorded a song and shot a video with a friend. otal budget: 100 euros. he name of the song was arly-omont, and in it amini raps about what he knows. " couldn't rap about 'bitches' and 'hos' and do that whole gangsta thing," he says, "because it's not true. t's not my life."<br/><br/>nstead he raps about cows and tractors and soccer. "n arly-omont," the song goes (it's in rench), "there's no concrete/ 65 is the average age around here/ ne tennis court, one basketball court." he video shows amini raisin' the roof with the village elders, who obviously think he's hilarious. ut amini also raps about racism and being different: " wanted to revolt, except that there, there's nothing to burn./ here's just one bus for the high school, same for the community center,/ ot worth going and burning a neighbor's car,/ uz they don't have them, they've all got mopeds."<br/><br/>n ug. 30, amini and another friend put the video online and cold e-mailed some record companies to tell them about it. he response wasn't exactly a feeding frenzy. ut an intern at one of the companies posted a link to the video on a bulletin board. "t's a site that sells custom-print shirts," amini says, shaking his head. "t doesn't even have anything to do with music!" y the end of the day, nobody on the website was talking about shirts. veryone was talking about amini.<br/><br/>he video spread to ouube and its rench equivalents, .tv and ailymotion.com. housands of people watched it. amini started getting requests to appear on radio shows. n mid-ctober, without having toured or even played a single gig, amini signed a record deal with for arly-omont and two albums. e was a rap star by popular proclamation. e had paid his dues virally. "verything has happened in two months," says amini, who hasn't quit his part-time job as a nurse. "ook at me, sitting here at a luxury hotel being interviewed. ow did all this happen?"<br/><br/>he answer is that the people can make their own stars nono auditions, no promotions. t's like merican dol, but everywhere, all the time. hough it's worth noting that the bands that have broken through online o, the rctic onkeys, ily llen, narls arkleyare a lot more interesting than the bland standards belters on merican dol.<br/><br/>ome rules haven't changed. eople respond to talent and authentic emotion, and arly-omont has them. "'m not the only one on the nternet with a video," amini says. "ut arly-omont is different. t shows my real nature, and people respond to that. aterially speaking, it's the nternet that made it popular. ut behind that, emotionally speaking, are people." https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/__show_article/_a000232-000602/#com78691 Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:07:01 UT