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  • March 9, 2009
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOTOHwW1qeU

Here's a 'video blog' by Annie Lennox.

There's a lot of pressure, these days, for musicians to throw them­selves into social media, to be video­b­log­ging and Tweeting and MySpacing and poking and Beboing, to be creating these unviewed, unwatched, unin­ter­ac­ted-with mountains of 'content' to be pushed and pulled around the internet in the hope of somehow selling a few hundred downloads.

It kind of makes sense for some artists — Frankmusik, for example, has basically been elec­tron­ic­ally tagged by his label and his website even seems to lead you to his home. But that's a singer in his early twenties. It's impossible to watch that uncom­fort­able, stilted Annie Lennox video blog without feeling that Annie feels she has better things to be doing than recording a 'video blog'. To be fair, she'd probably be right.

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