Soft Rocked By Me sung on Bravo!!!
Ok, welcome to a surreal experience. Every now and then I watch a program called Millionaire Matchmaker on Bravo. On this show, a real live Jewish matchmaker helps millionaires find their 'soul mates.' Anyway, I was watching Bravo today, and they keep playing commercials for the next episode, to air on Thursday. One of the millionaires, who the commercials blatantly portray as a complete dweeb, sings a line from a song: "Have you ever been in love with a man who's sensitive?" I really couldn't believe it... am I hearing what I think I'm hearing?! I really laughed my ass off at that. But still, JoCo fame, right? I wonder if he gets any royalties from that. In any case, I now MUST watch that episode to see how much of the song gets played, if any of it does. I couldn't find a clip of the guy singing the song online, but here's a clip of the guy who sings it in the commercial: http://www.hulu.com/watch/64739/the-millionaire-matchmaker-left-brainiac
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Looks like that episode is on next Thursday at 7, and repeated multiple times after that.
ETA: Okay, I just saw the commercial, so ignore my last comment (he's not with a girl when he's singing, he's just on video by himself).
Anyway, maybe he explains it before or after singing, so that the irony is clear. I'd date a guy who sang a JoCo song in his video. At least it wasn't Millionaire Girlfriend.
I'm glad I don't have to figure these things out for real. Nice to hear it played though!
Then again, if it wasn't JoCo, and he decided to sing/play some Beatles or other love song, what would we make of that? Are all those Youtube covers illegal?
Actually, you don't have to pay royalties on performances of cover songs-- the venue actually has to pay them, believe it or not. But you do have to pay fees for *recordings* of covers.
This guy e-mailed Jonathan probably 9 months ago about this whole thing and they worked out all kinds of stuff. So nobody is infringing on anything. The way I understand it is, this is a recording of a cover (obviously: television); as you know, Jonathan's CC license covers noncommercial stuff, but since this is for Bravo, it's commercial. Usually the network would cover licensing fees, but in this er, *special* case, he did it himself.
Make sense?
I know I wouldn't date anyone who couldn't appreciate the humor in a song like that.
Hmm...
he's my millionaire boyfriend, he's my buzz, man
once I finally find him I'll get permission from the husband
Nah, that would never work.
Also, i would have picked Millionaire Girlfriend, for the extra level of WTFness ;)
edit: And by JoCo, I mean the venue. So what covers have become fairly common? Birdhouse, Sweet Caroline, Pressure, Baby Got Back...
I guess this puts the idea of total spontaneity for the setlist to rest, since I'm sure JoCo has to tell the venue sometime beforehand that he plans on playing a cover.
venues pay a flat fee to either BMI or ASCAP, as far as I know they are not required to track what is played that determination is made based on the type of music the house normally plays.
Kind of like protection money.
I had a friend who owned a pipe and cigar store. They used to play a radio in the store and had a couple of speakers in different corners of the store.
A guy from BMI came by and told them that that was no longer personal use but public performance and therefore they would need to pay BMI if they wished to continue. Regardless of the fact that the radio station already pays them.