Carly Simon sues Starbucks: ‘zero impact’
p2pnet news view Advertising | Music:- Singer Carly Simons followed Paul McCartney’s footsteps in thinking Starbucks might be good for advertising ‘product’.
But apparently, the coffee store didn’t live up to her expectations and, “Yesterday news broke that Carly Simon filed a lawsuit against Starbucks claiming the coffee giant failed to market her last album, This Kind of Love, properly,” says Rolling Stone.
However, Chris Bruzzo, the company’s president of ‘brand content’ doesn’t agree, telling Rolling Stone Starbucks, “went out of its way to cater to Simon’s requests”.
“We offered Carly Simon CDs in every store that we offered Paul McCartney CDs,” he says in the story.
But Simon arguedall her album was mismanaged because, “five days prior to its release, the company announced it was ‘refining their music strategy’ and transferring control of Hear Music over to Concord Music Group.
“That had zero impact,” she states.
Well, when you depend on coffee rather than quality … 
Rolling Stone - Starbucks “Very Disappointed” By Carly Simon’s Lawsuit, October 14, 2009
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October 15th, 2009 at 11:15 am
It couldn’t POSSIBLY be that Carly only appeals to a very small fan base any more.
No way, it HAS to be someone elses incompetence.
What vomit.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Could this be the start of a new trend? Just imagine if all artists would sue the record label every time an album fails to sell.
There was an indepth article on this topic last week in the NY Times. Simon claims she is flat broke (despite being the daughter of a billionaire) and this Starbucks album was supposed to pay for her retirement. She has another album coming out this month, but decided to take the safe route and put out a rehashed ‘greatest hits’ album instead of new material. (good legal strategy; putting out another flop would make it hard to pin blame on Starbucks)
It’s worth noting that Hear Music, Starbucks former inhouse record label, is a member of the RIAA cartel.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
lol @ pic
October 15th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Ah, maybe she was just disappointed when the result didn’t live up to her An-ti-ci-pa-tion.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
“I had some dreams there were sales of my albums, sales of my albums yeah, you’re to blame, it isn’t my music it’s Starbucks, you’re to blame (to blame), I bet you hide my CD now don’t you, don’t you, don’t you”
October 15th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Because when you think of music, your mind immediately turns to Starbucks, the beacon of all that’s brown and lumpy.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
LOL Eric
October 15th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
At one time Carly Simon was fairly popular, I never thought of her as a superstar. Just because a former beatle could pull off a Starsucks release doesnt mean any old worn out artist can. But go ahead Carly, live the American dream by suing your way into retirement, every other has been has!
“You’re so vain, you probably think this post is about you, you’re so vain………….”
It’s a sad reality when no one will take responsability for their own failures, but instead blame and sue people they have HIRED to do a job, that was doomed to failure in the first place!
October 17th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Could this be the start of a new trend? Just imagine if all artists would sue the record label every time an album fails to sell.
And what about music publishers who become rights holder of songs after promising the songwriter that they will promote the songs so as to share the royalties but somehow never gets the songs recorded or to generate income for the songwriter. In the US alone there are probably 100 million songs in this category. Never recorded, never made any money for the songwriter, but owned by the publisher who got the songs by promising earnings to the songwriter.
But songwriters never sue, or get their songs back, because the legal system works only for the wealthy, with acess to lawyeres. Carly Simon is wealthy.