| Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
| The new wave. |
The beautiful Marie Digby. For those that don't know her, her name's pronounced "Marr-ree-eh". The power of the internet shows itself right here in her life. Despite being an amazing talent, Marie had problems going up on stage to compete and sing. Youtube came along and she just recorded herself singing and playing the guitar. She did a cover of Rihanna's hit song "Umbrella" and it grossed a total of (currently) 7.2 MILLION views! That's like every man and woman in Singapore giving birth and everyone with their new child watches the video!
For the happy ending, Marie was somewhat recently signed on a record company. What happened was that someone sat up and took notice of this girl who had talent but no record label. Now then, who needs American Idol now?
But seriously, if we do consider it, the power of the internet as the new media is quite something indeed. Take for example your internet as a HUGE network of websites. Now these websites are some sort of a TV channel where people visit and engage in these sites. Let's take YouTube as one of those "TV channels". Now, just because the stats add up and over 7 million people have viewed this angel of a lady, people have moved in to sign her up on a contract. Marie has "advertised" herself on this channel of YouTube and true enough, got her big break.
Think of the recent possibilities on the internet: Buying and selling items that we would not have normally have access to. T-shirts, apparrel from overseas. Music, CDs are available on the net. Worldwide commnunication! Before MSN Messenger came along, I was reduced to occasional monthly calls overseas to my cousins in England to catch up with them. Cost a bomb too! Now, with this application and the internet, I can easily talk to them a few times a week! FREE! (in theory)
The new mass media? I think so! |
posted by The Als @ 8:25 PM  |
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