IDEAS The horror of boybands...

A quick illustration of how wide your options are for music videos...

• two iconic US 90s boybands have announced they're teaming up on a...

Biggest Brit in US in 2011?

Intriguing top 40 list of top-earning music artists in US last year, which highlights the importance of concert/touring/merchandise revenues over music sales, and the prominence of many older acts (Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block?!?!).
Great to see a genuine talent being the highest ranking Brit entry (ie, not Adele...), though there was of course an even higher-ranked Irish act!
Read more here. Useful data for many of you.

Parodies

A little light relief/insight into the burgeoning impact of the postmodern aesthetic and the growth of new media brands outside the old media networks...
The 1st of these gets a little crude towards the end; sev examples here of another growing trend, building on the tradition developed by Weird Al Yankovich, but in 2011 operated as en entirely online operation - spoof/parody vids, in this case from the 'barelypolitical' YouTube channel, which uploads weekly comedy updates.
If you happened to be doing a Backstreet Boys vid, you might be interested in the BB ref in the Bieber spoof...