Online Fame | A 'blog written by Chris Rhee

The Bad Seed, a rapper from Brooklyn, NY went head to head with MySpace.com for the first time yesterday. Someone told him it was a more user friendly community site than some others that he was already a part of and a good way to feature some of his music, so he decided to give it a shot:

Bad Seed: yo the shit wont let me sign up….it keeps saying that nobody under 16 can join…im screaming at my pc like…”im fucking 30 years old homie…!!!”

Whenever you sign up, you automatically get the founder of MySpace (Tom) added to your Friends list. I was wondering why this guy was showing up on so many people’s friends list.

mma productions: how come seed didn’t automatically get Tom as a friend?
Bad Seed: i did…i deleted his ass…

Turns out that Bad Seed didn’t sign up for a MySpace Music account, which is what he needs, if he wants to be able to post his tracks up on his MySpace page. Unfortunately, you have to navigate to the Music section and then click “Artist Signup” (so that big, orange sign-up button on the homepage is a bit misleading if you’re trying to get a Music account).

It would probably be better to have one sign up form for the site with an option to choose whether it’s a regular account or a music account. I don’t really understand this because other than the fact that you can post a music player on your site, the overall look and function of the website is exactly the same as a regular account.

I’ll try not to go into too much of a design discussion — apparently, the website is purposely “ghetto simplistic”.

Anyway, Bad Seed is forced to sign up again with a different username in the Music section. Now Tom is back on his new account’s Friends list.

Baby_girl: TOM IS YOUR ONLY FRIEND RIGHT NOW!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Bad Seed: i just deaded that nigga again…

I definitely need to work in some “real life quotes” to my company website re-design… Reason #1303 for why you should step your website’s usability game up:

Bad Seed: can someone tell me how i can send a friend request….my space aint that user friendly…boy wait til i see tom man…..

Now with all that said… Check out The Bad Seed’s MySpace page and check out his tracks. Cause The Bad Seed is in the building — SU-PER!

Apparently the new trend for marketing campaigns is to combine words together to create one word. The bad thing is that a lot of commercials that make use of this trend try to make it seem funny and clever… I’m sure you’ve seen some of them. I seriously change the channel when they start to play.

• Taco Bell has “smunchy” (Soft + Melty + Crunchy)
• MB Financial Bank has “betsimpsier” (Better + Simpler + Easier)
• Some new TV show that I forgot the name of has “laundrary” (Laundry + Library)
• Another thing I forgot has “linner”/”lunner” (Lunch + Dinner)

That’s it, I’m starting my own ad agency. Especially if the slogans and punchlines could have been made up by high school kids ten years ago (and not high school kids as in: 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade… I mean high school kids). I can get a whole super army of a marketing team together if that’s the type of stuff companies are looking for. Yodel at me, Corporation CEOs!