Posted by leflaw in on March 12, 2008 at 6:04 PM
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pessimist
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Date: March 12, 2008 @ 7:04 PM
Re: "Spitzer could have gotten this girl a break in music."
Yeah, and maybe then she wouldn't have to prostitute herself anymore.
Speaking of Spitzer's indescretion, I feel sorry for how his wife must feel through all this trauma.
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pessimist
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Date: March 12, 2008 @ 7:23 PM
Some people might say the problem with Spitzer was that his hard wasn't in the right place, but the man did a great job subjecting unfairness to accountability.
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Dreddsnik
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 2:10 AM
" Ironic, isn't it---he broke the back of payola, "
" Spitzer's whore is a songwriter. "
Some of the more tinfoil hattish among
us look at this with a little more suspicion.
Although, no one who has ever made a
difference against organized crime has
ever been set up, i'm sure . 
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pessimist
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 8:36 AM
"I am all about my music, and my music is all about me," she [Spitzer's whore]writes.
Re: "I am all about my music . . ."
Hmm, I submit that a part of her is about making thousands of dollars doing tricks, likely unrelated to music.
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pessimist
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 8:38 AM
(Reference to what the prostitute has said comes from a news link courtesy of Google.)
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medwardl
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 12:56 PM
only thing he did wrong was getting caught. i don't know why it hasn't been legalized yet. i wouldn't use such services but there are millions who do and they could tax it as well as monitor health of prostitutes.
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leflaw
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 3:52 PM
Could woman in Spitzer scandal become a star?
Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:08pm EDT
By Mariel Concepcion and Hillary Crosley
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Could Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the aspiring singer embroiled in the prostitution scandal that toppled New York governor Eliot Spitzer, have a music career?
Top talent scouts are weighing in on her chances after the 22-year-old racked up millions of MySpace views and launched much-sought-after new songs on priced-by-demand Web site AmieStreet.com since the Spitzer story broke.
Before Dupre's MySpace page was deleted Thursday, it had received 4,612,397 views and her song "What We Want" touted 711,334 plays. According to the New York Times, two tracks Dupre released to AmieStreet.com this week received thousands of listens and their prices rocketed from free to the maximum price of 98 cents Thursday. The number of blog posts mentioning Dupre also rose over 750% in the last 48 hours according to Nielsen BuzzMetrics.
Here is what some major A&R (artists and repertoire) executives told Billboard.com about her prospects:
"I think her song is absolutely terrible. If people are interested in signing her, then they shouldn't be in the music business. It'd be a shame to exploit her talent based on the unacceptable reality that she was involved in. Most importantly, it destroyed multiple families. I don't think the scandal will help her at all. In fact, I think the public is a bit smarter than we think they are. Even though she's had over a million hits on her MySpace, I think people are just going there to see her pictures and laugh at her attempt to pursue a music career."
-- CHRIS ANOKUTE, Capitol Records Senior A&R Director
"The funny thing about this is that I read the story this morning, about (Dupre) wanting to be a singer, and I thought to myself that I really wanted to reach out to her. I'd be interested in what the music sounds like. I sit around hours and hours every day trying to figure out ways to break new artists. Right now, she has a platform to reach the masses, which is the toughest thing for a new artist to attain. Whether it's a good platform or a bad one, either way she has it. It all comes down to the music at the end of the day. If the music is good, she'll be able to get it heard."
-- BRIAN BERGEN, Atlantic Records A&R Manager
"As an A&R (person) I wouldn't be interested in her music solely because of ... Spitzer. But people do say any publicity is good publicity and her recent headlines would help get her some exposure. She has a platform; its just a matter of spinning off negative and making it positive. Part of being good (at) A&R is knowing where the talent is, regardless of background. If the music is good, it's enough for me to keep my ears open and follow the story. Who knows, maybe a year from now she'll be in a completely different place."
-- CONRAD DIMANCHE, A&R consultant for Bad Boy Records.
Reuters/Billboard
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ShadowMom
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 3:56 PM
She'll never make as much money in music as she does as a hooker.  They played one of her tracks on the radio this morning. Lessons-- for singing, of course-- would be absolutely necessary. 
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pessimist
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 5:39 PM
The girl does have some natural talent, similar to Monica Lewinsky.
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independentm...
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 5:48 PM
Well, if that's what it takes to get known as a music artist these days...
Well, now that I think about it. How is it any different than Brittney, Lindsey, Paris, Christina, and all those other 'ho's' standing in the way of legitimate artists.
lol
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independentm...
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 5:50 PM
hmm...
Before we get too critical of this girl, somebody better check and make sure she doesn't have a DMusic account.
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pessimist
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 9:22 PM
good point; nice thinkin' there, Shmoo
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pessimist
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 9:25 PM
Otherwise . . .
"I am all about my music"
has little more definitive ring to it than seductive Monica was all about delivering a pizza to oval-office Bill.
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pessimist
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Date: March 13, 2008 @ 9:37 PM
As an aside:
Ashley could make a major chunk of a million bucks agreeing to have her physical assets photographed in glossy magazine format for Hugh Hefner's empire.
I'm not predicting she will do so, but she WILL be tempted.
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leflaw
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Date: March 14, 2008 @ 10:11 AM
I am proud that no one mentioned skin flute.
(oops...)
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pessimist
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Date: March 14, 2008 @ 4:22 PM
And I'm musing about how well she played the "skin flute". (Doubtlessly, beautiful sounds can come from skillfully using mouth and lips on an oboe, or on a harmonica, or, er, on a throbbing organ!)
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pessimist
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Date: March 14, 2008 @ 11:44 PM
Requiem for Spitzer's career:
Lately his "hard" wasn't in the right place, but the man did a fine job subjecting unfairness to accountability.
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independentm...
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Date: March 15, 2008 @ 4:23 PM
Even tho I cheered when he did it, I always felt that Spitzer never followed-through enough on his investigations. He went after broadcast radio and the RIAA for payola, but not much ever came of it once he got the headlines and publicity needed to help his political career.
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independentm...
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Date: March 15, 2008 @ 5:15 PM
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rico
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Date: March 16, 2008 @ 7:34 PM
I asked her to be my myspace friend. She declined. What a whore.
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