For all you aspiring Myspace stars out there, let me pass along a nugget of knowledge to add to your PR acumen: you cannot endear yourself to a critic by signing him up for your mailing list without approval.

Let me start by saying that “Cody” as I’ll call this act, surely has learned that self-promotion is critical. Today fans expect a Myspace site, Facebook site, Twitters (whatever that is), and the like. It’s a grassroots thing and that’s cool. Artists claw their way to respect by aggregating as many “friends” and mailing list signups as possible. I get it even though I’m really just pretending to give a damn.

Just leave me the fuck out of it.

Please.

I mean it.

So Cody took the bold move to acquire more readers for his email newsletter by sending me a this little gem:

Please sign up for our mailing list and stay in touch!
~Cody
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You have been added to the The Cody XXXXX band fan list!

Wait a minute. The first line asks me to signup while the latter message indicates I had already signed up.

This has prompted me to take the opposite action that Cody and his band would prefer: they’ve been blacklisted.

That’s right. When the band accumulates ten million friends on Myspace, you won’t find me among the throng. When the shows are sold out and they release their triple-platinum greatest hits disc, I won’t even listen. When flocks of fornicating teenagers decide to name their illegitimate children “Cody” because they did it to his songs, I will write nary a word about the band. These will be the last words I ever write about this act.

Let this serve as a lesson before you sign me up for your mailing list.

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