I'm sure most of you have seen my posts for trying to promote Alizée on the radio. Well I'm hoping to make that a reality by posting some 36 commercials, 30 seconds long, over a two week period on a Boston radio station.
The first 25 seconds being a part of one of her songs and the last 5 seconds will be a dj saying to get more information about Alizee, go to AlizeeAmerica.com.
The cost will be $3,000.00. Fully funded by me.
The songs I will use will probably be her English ones because I think the beauty of her French songs would be lost on most people here. The English songs will be from the MCE, Gour era. The ones I was thinking of using I posted a youtube link earlier for and I'll repost it here. I have to trim these down to 25 seconds. I think these earlier songs have real capture power, that's why I selected them. We all know that the lryics dont make a whole lot of sense, but that's the beauty of the 25 second commercial. You can use a section that does, even though that isn't that easy. The idea is to get their attention. Once they go to the web site, they can determine whether they're disappointed with the full lyrics or whether they're disappointed with her being older now.But I don't think they will be.
The reason I haven't posted anything until now is I wanted to make sure this was going to go through first. I'm not living in the lap of luxury here and if the engine in my 94 chevy s10 were to blow up tomorrow, I probably wouldn't be able to do this. Another reason I haven't posted is because I know there would be far ranging views in what songs to use, what part of each song, what city, what station, etc. But I'm putting up the funds so I'll do it my way. If somebody else thinks it should be done different, they can come up with some money and do it their way.
The station is WMJX-fm. Magic 106.7. They mostly play soft rock. I listened to them for hours and think they're a good fit for her music and they watched my music and thought she'd be a good fit for them.
I thought maybe targeting a top 40 station, but in using these older songs, I think they'd be a lot less willing to play her music if listeners requested it than a station like Magic would. They don't care about the age. All they care about is the foremat and probably would play one of her songs if enought people requested it. A good thing too about this station is we'll be able to listen live over the internet. They will provide us a schedule for when the commercials will be played.