McDonald's Starts Tornado Dropping Twista for Lyrics
McDonald's Corporation has caused a tornado of controversy by dropping rapper Twista from a 10-city concert tour because of what they are calling "derogatory lyrics". The fast food giant has decided to drop the potty mouth rapper because of explicit language and references to drugs in the lyrics.
Twista is known for his hits "Slow Jamz" and "Overnight Celebrity" with Jamie Foxx. McDonald's has stated that they are all for freedom of speech and artistic expression but that they don't endorse explicit and derogatory language.
Twista is blaming Don Imus and the flap he has created within the hip-hop industry for McDonald's whirlwind decision.
Lyrics on iPhones as Apple Seeks Patents
Apple's been bobbing for patent applications this week and that has caused all sorts of speculation as to what this could mean for the iPhone. Looks like the big PC-buster is looking for a method to display music lyrics on their iPhones and iPods in conjunction with songs that their clients download.
Gracenote has been implicated in this rumor as the supplier of lyrics. Earlier this year Gracenote teamed up with Yahoo Music to supply lyrics for over 400,000 songs in their database. If this music lyrics plan does come to fruition, who will be a big enough player to take a bite out of Apple?
The Rhapsody of Searchable Music LyricsFree searchable music lyrics to over 200,000 songs are now being offered at
Rhapsody Online. In a deal with RealNetworks and LyricFind, the lyrics from 1,800 different independent and major music publishers are being offered at no charge.
This offering will provide competition to the
Yahoo and Gracenote offering that I had blogged about previously. It will also give some of the other large free music lyrics databases on the Web a run for their money. And, running for the money, is indeed, what it's all about now isn't it? Run, Forrest, run!
