Time for a New PR Firm?
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[Updated May 26]
I just received this hype for Better Than Ezra’s CD-release party for Paper Empire at the House of Blues Friday night:
Better Than Ezra
Along with such similarly styled outfits as the Goo Goo Dolls, the New
Orleans-based trio Better Than Ezra helped open the floodgates for
countless mainstream alt-pop acts of the late ’90s (including
Semisonic, Matchbox Twenty, and Third Eye Blind) by merging rock with
melody to create an easily digestible form of alternative music.
Could that possibly make the band sound more like a blast from past, one whose accomplishments have to be explained to kids these days? And could that sound any more detached? The writer makes a BTE show sound as joyful as a trip to the library to return overdue books.
Update: BTE’s Tom Drummond says that didn’t come from the band’s PR firm. Now the question is where it came from.
It’s typical press release writing. What gets me is the assertion that somehow they were the first to merge “rock with melody.” That’s an observation that suggests nothing else existed before Better Than Ezra, because melody has been “merging” with rock since rock existed.
Comment by John Swenson — May 25, 2009 @ 7:36 am
We wondered about that too, but not concretely until you mention it here. Like, there was such a hole in that CD Roll-out, but I couldn’t put my finger on it, hence Bad PR -no soup for you!
Goo Goo Dolls my ass. Jeez Louie! BTE can out-play those pinks for hours until sunrise. I’ve seen them do it!
I’m going off because their PR Firm/Label probably reads this blog if they have any sense left. Hehehe
But really, Better Than Ezra is way Better Than That!
Editilla~New Orleans Ladder
Comment by New Orleans Ladder — May 25, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
I like my music like I like my vegetables. “Easily digestible”.
Comment by Matt — May 25, 2009 @ 1:11 pm