Carly Simon vs. Starbucks
Why the singer-songwriter is suing the coffee giant
Carly Simon: Suing Starbucks
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Carly Simon is not happy with Starbucks, said Daniel Kreps in Rolling Stone. The 64-year-old singer-songwriter has hired "heavyweight" attorney David Boies and is suing the coffee chain for "failing to properly promote" her 2007 album This Kind of Love through its Hear Music record label. Simon's hoping to collect up to $10 million, claiming that the album's "failure" has forced her to continue her career and made it hard for her to "find and pay producers."
Give me a break, said Perez Hilton. "A bomb is a bomb, Carly!" Just because your album didn't do well doesn't mean it's Starbucks' fault. "Even after heavier promotion in the New York and Boston areas," Starbucks said sales for This Kind of Love never really picked up. People just weren't that interested in the album, Ms. Simon, so "get over it and move on."
Whether the album's failure was the fault of the music or Starbucks "is debatable," said Jeffrey Hyatt in Beat Crave. For one thing, This Kind of Love wasn't even "sold exclusively at Starbucks." But "it's hard not to admire Simon for standing her ground"—if Starbucks "didn't hold up their end of the bargain then by all means," they should pay up.
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Posted by steve k, Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 5:37 pm Pretty hard to feel sorry for an OVERPAID PRIMADONNA who was expecting about TEN MILLION DOLLARS!!!! Get real!!!! Boo Hoo , go cry me a river Carly.
Posted by steve k, Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 5:56 pm Poor little rich girl. If Carly Simon ever had to work a REAL JOB like the other 99.9 percent of us, she might look at her singing gig as a windfall and not be crying sour grapes. Shame on her for not saving her money from all of the OTHER albums that were successful. Just shameful.
Posted by steve k, Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 5:57 pm Maybe Carly can get Starbucks to buy her a free cup of coffee seeing as how she is soooooo broke!!!!!!
Posted by William, Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 7:57 pm Perez Hilton chimes in? What a laugh! Before you pass such sweeping judgement get to know the facts of the case. But Perez has never been one for such things...He's just about getting into the press where ever or however he can....talk about toxic waste. And by the way the album did not come out in 2007, it was 2oo8.
Posted by John Howton, Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 8:58 am Perez Hilton is a FAT, LONELY EXTREMELY UNATTRACTIVE DRAG QUEEN who knows NOTHING about this matter! Carly Simon is a treasure! 'Love her music! ROCK ON, CARLY!!!!!!
Posted by John Gault, Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 11:48 am I don't really care about this story, but the fact that Perez Hilton chimed in, I'm on Carly Simons side. He's the most worthless piece of ht on the planet. Why does anyone pay him more than a millisecond of attention? I agree with John Howton's comments on Perez.
Posted by tim, Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 12:33 pm Who the hell is Perez Hilton anyway, and why should he be quoted?
Posted by sakara, Thursday, October 15, 2009, 12:35 pm now that carly is a starving artist maybe she can write some avantegarde music....thank you, bernie madoff!
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