HW 4: Option 1: Want to be an overnight Celebrity? Get a blog!
After reading Kline & Burnstein’s, “The Voice of the Customer” I found something very interesting. They talked about how blogging can basically make or break a company or a person. One very interesting person that this happened to that sparked my attention was “Danger Mouse”. This man was a hip-hop rapper and probably wouldn’t have made it very far without being in the blogosphere. He became a huge hit almost overnight before of bloggers, I found this amazing that blogs can do something as extreme as that. He was mentioned on page 107. I looked him up on Wikipedia and found out a lot about him. I found out that his real name is actually, Brian Burton. He was born in White Plains, New York and has always been interested in music. After he became a hit in the blog world, he made an album called the “Grey Album” that took the Beatles’ “White Album” and remixed it with Jay-Z’s “Black Album” and it became a huge hit. He has traveled all over the world touring with groups such as: the Gorillaz, Gnarls Barkley, the Black Keys and many more. I decided to talk about him because I thought that his “overnight celebrity” fame because of blogs was so interesting and amazing. I think that blogs are a great thing and clearly have a huge amount of power if they can help make or break a performing artist. Just by reading about “Danger Mouse” it makes me realize just how much blogs can do to help people all over the world! This is definitely a great blog success story!
