Following on the success of the Wall Street Meltdown parodies, I wrote Mad Avenue Blues. Like Wall Street Meltdown and WSM Redux (both on YouTube), the new video takes a popular song and substitutes industry-specific lyrics. Only instead of finance, Mad Avenue Blues is about the media/advertising world and the impact to the traditional models brought about by the accelerating migration to digital.
Sung to Don McLean’s “American Pie”, this 19 stanza song was written and produced in just one day. I did this so that I could answer those who respond to my video projects with the knee-jerk “you obviously have too much time on your hands”.
Mad Avenue Blues was produced for non-commercial amusement purposes only and is not intended to offend any people or companies appearing in the video. All images were found on the internet and are the property of their rights owners.
L. McDuff
(pen name – for my Yellow Labrador, Lady McDuff)
Duration : 0:9:21
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August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
I laughed, I cried, …
I laughed, I cried, I forwarded the link…
and therein lies the rub.
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
this is hilarious …
this is hilarious and amazing! only 122k views? what happened?
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Excellent! Great …
Excellent! Great video.
I am sad, pained, I majored in journalism in college, painful to watch it go… but I welcome new media and the many platforms it provides.
Still just wish we had a few Walter Cronkite’s around.
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
btw: there is a …
btw: there is a site chronicling the death of news-
papers; people who like this parody might also
like that; “newspaper death watch”; very civilized,
relaxing and sometimes funny
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Great! – Poland
Great! – Poland
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
IT BURNS, IT BURNS, …
IT BURNS, IT BURNS, oh the humanity!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Sad, but so ed …
Sad, but so ed true! Thumps up!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
I like it!
I like it!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Thumps up, …
Thumps up, ekstreamely well done. LOL
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Excellent LOL
So …
Excellent LOL
So well down, as well as the Wall Street Meltdown.
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
nice and VERY true …
nice and VERY true song…could be used in Mediaschools to get the real inside of the ad biz
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Love it! also your …
Love it! also your featured on one of the creators of YouTube profile, Chad!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Haha.. Funny one. …
Haha.. Funny one. Remember that Internet per definition also fits inside Media. Also, brand awareness will always be of interest. Soon there will be ways also to measure time spent in front of a banner. Before Internet, there wouldn’t been any advertising in print when telemarketing boomed back in 90s, purely result-based – there still was ads in print.
Cost per watched second of ones ad/brand attention-time, eCPM=eCPMinute .
Yes. A brilliant song!
//K
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
BRILLIANT!!!
BRILLIANT!!!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Five stars from me. …
Five stars from me…. hilarious!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
This video is truly …
This video is truly truly classic, and hilarious. Must be very very talented in order ti squeeze the message into Don McLean’s lyrics. Brilliant!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
LMcDuff…..genius …
LMcDuff…..genius creation
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Absolut great work, …
Absolut great work, dude. Working at several online publishers since 2001, so I know what you are singing about. Outstanding work!!!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Amazing …
Amazing understanding of the ad biz – beautiful
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
excellent!!!!!! !!!!
excellent!!!!!! !!!!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Also been a …
Also been a journalist once. It was interesting, but
was also glad to get out of it.
When searching with “circulation down ad rates up” one comes straight to a number of articles, from 2004, … the media never tell or mention some aspects. Have fun getting a proper explanation as to why and how.
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Epic…
Epic…
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Just terrific.
…
Just terrific.
–Retired newspaper guy, and just in time
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
well done!
well done!
August 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Midia nojenta sendo …
Midia nojenta sendo substituida pela Web.
Não muito engraçado, mas, trágico.
será ?