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| What, do you want me to write 'Final Transmission' in bright blue crayon or something, stores? |
This is the intended cover for my first single, Final Transmission.
The stores rejected it because 'it wasn't clearly titled'.
The title, Final Transmission is clearly written in Binary. Granted, that's not a common method of communication for humans, which is kind of the point of the song itself. Thematically, it is literally PERFECT. But I wasn't allowed to use it.
How does this restriction benefit the creator or the consumer? I see no reason to blindly accept that there is any good reason for this anti-artistic nonsense, especially seeing that no good reason was given me. The reason was 'because the art was confusing, because it didn't have the title on it'.
Okay, but...seriously, who cares?
"Oh, I meant to buy the latest Nine Inch Nails album but I accidentally bought a Taylor Swift album instead, because neither of them had the name written in hot pink across the cover in Times New Roman" said nobody ever.
"I thought this song was called Final Transmission, not Hell Zero or Hello or whatever that's supposed to say, because I don't know how to read a store webpage properly" - also said by nobody ever.
Okay, but...seriously, who cares?
"Oh, I meant to buy the latest Nine Inch Nails album but I accidentally bought a Taylor Swift album instead, because neither of them had the name written in hot pink across the cover in Times New Roman" said nobody ever.
"I thought this song was called Final Transmission, not Hell Zero or Hello or whatever that's supposed to say, because I don't know how to read a store webpage properly" - also said by nobody ever.
So, essentially, the artwork was rejected "because 'reasons' or whatever".
Pffft.
Artistic restrictions should happen either 'due to circumstance' or 'artistic reasons'.
Artistic restrictions should happen either 'due to circumstance' or 'artistic reasons'.
They should NOT happen because idiots wearing business suits want their life to be easy, or whatever their damn reasoning is, which I have no way of knowing, apart from "derp derp just shut up and do what we say derpa derp"
I have two choices: Change the art, or don't release the single.
Along with 'being creative in the so-called album art for my song', do you know what else I'm not allowed to do?
I'm not allowed to put a website address on it.
Yet, the actual store-sanctioned album art clearly displays the URL for this very page written in Binary, plain as day!
Now THAT'S art.- Paddy
My distributors, DistroKid, are fantastic. My issue isn't with them, it's with the stores, so I wanted to make it clear that this post wasn't about them in ANY way.
Turns out the reason is that they have to organise literally thousands of songs each day.
ReplyDeleteI probably should have been able to have worked that out for myself, really.
Still, I got a blog post out of it, so that's nice.