From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #200 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, February 15 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 200 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: death sells music NJC [Catherine McKay ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:56:45 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: death sells music NJC I think you've given a great explanation of this. I'm guilty of this myself - not necessarily of rushing out to buy albums of someone who has died, but at least listening to their music, either my own CDs or Itunes, or else Youtube. People do that here too. The Whitney Houston stuff is front-and-centre in the music stores these days and on Itunes, who notoriously raised the price of her Greatest Hits album as soon as she died but I understand later brought it back to its original price. When Michael Jackson died, there were huge gatherings of people downtown who did their own memorials, sort of what happened when John Lennon died. And I've just posted something about Dory Previn's passing, so there you go. She was more of a "cult" artist and never made it big time, so I doubt there will be this huge bandwagon over her death, although maybe someday someone will discover her, the way Brad Pitt "discovered" Nick Drake. And, although he's very much among us, apparently there was a flurry of tweets during the Grammys the other night from kids, wondering who Paul McCartney was. Do you laugh, or do you cry? I've seen Hoarders a few times. It's very sad. >________________________________ > From: "Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" >To: Mags >Cc: JoniList >Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 8:36:23 AM >Subject: Re: death sells music NJC > > >The interesting question is why this phenomenon occurs. Is it a reflection >of our realization of our own immortality, as if possessing celebrity >memorabilia after their demise will help them to live on? I would say >that's most of it. Possibly people experience guilt that they didn't >support someone ENOUGH and want to make up for lost time? In the show >"Hoarders" (a fascinating show), most of the folks that start hoarding >stuff, even worthless stuff, begin doing so when they experience some kind >of loss, a spouse, a parent, a child. Their sense of loss of having >something so dear to them taken away spurs them to become unable to give >ANYTHING up, even trash, animal waste, etc. > >Is this an international thing or just a USA thing? ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #200 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send tojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------