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I think it's safe to say they better get their asses on the road if they wanna sell some records.
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IVL was out of the Top 10 after the third week if memory serves me correct.
I disagree with correlating The Hip's album sales to their tour announcements (or lack of). Since at least Henhouse they have never announced a Canadian tour until later in the summer. I don't see how announcing an Amercian theatre/club tour is going to help Canadian sales of the album.
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You could substitute 'Hillary Duff' with 'Avril Lavigne' as being a talentless industry-created hack also. I ask again, how many 14 year olds are there in Canada? They must be at least 70% of the population! How else can you explain Avril selling so many records? It boggles my mind. It truly does!
I read that Avril is going out with that pug Derek(sp?) from Sum 41, another bunch of hacks. I guess Derek slagged Jeff Martin of the Tea Party during one of the band's shows. I'm sure some people on hipbase.com aren't big fans of the Tea Party and Jeff Martin in particular but to see a talentless hack like Derek the nobody slag someone who has at least been in the business for a while and earned his dues is pathetic. If the world outside of Canada concentrated more on the actual talented bands in Canada instead of Avril, Sum 41, Nickelback, Celine than the music world would be a better place. I'm certainly not proud of the Canadian bands that made it big outside of Canada (exceptions of course, Neil Young and a few others).
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lets all go and buy a second album!
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I think that the biggest problem is that the Hip are not popular amongst the 15-year-old girls that make up todays marketplace. If they want to dominate the charts, they'll have to grow some hair, ditch all the musical insturments in favour of a synthesizer and start writing songs about summer crushes. Paul can do backup rapping.
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It bothers the hell out of me cuz The Hip have been doing this since Hillary Duff was born! The only thing the little morons should think about at such a height is the fall back down. Look for Hillary in five years, or Avril for that matter... They won't be there. Remember the Spice Girls? No? I didn't think so... These are based on sales not talent. Why so many sales? Because they're considered "hot" by the media right now... That's all it is... If you flip through a magazine, I guarantee you'll find their pictures at least once. If the Hip had the same publicity agents and low-integrity as these girls do, they would be in the top spot still. But the Hip aren't about that... There should actually be charts based on talent/creativity instead of charts based on sales... Why the hell would you base a chart on sales in the first place?! Everyone else is doing it... go jump off that cliff too, Little Timmy...
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Maybe the Hip should spend less money on new managers and better studio work and more money on breast implants tummy tucks.
