{"id":329,"date":"2009-09-14T19:18:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=329"},"modified":"2009-09-14T19:18:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T19:18:43","slug":"seriously_whyhow_is_michael_ja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/09\/seriously_whyhow_is_michael_ja\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously: Why\/how is Michael Jackson e mailing me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the production company <a href=\"http:\/\/aeglive.com\/\">AEG Live<\/a> is e mailing potential ticket buyers as Michael Jackson&#8211;&#8220;MJ&#8221;, to a few hundred thousand of his closest friends, actually&#8211;to promote the upcoming movie <i>This is It, <\/i>which features Jackson&#8217;s last rehearsals. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MichaelJacksonEmail.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/MichaelJacksonEmail.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"142\" width=\"400\" \/><\/span>Obviously this is beyond absurd because the man passed away. That said, it did make me think about faux personalized e mails. For the past two years, for example, I&#8217;ve been getting e mails &#8220;from&#8221; Barack Obama, and I have to say I like seeing his name in my Inbox. I wonder, then, if a presenter was marketing a Hilary concert if it would be effective to send an e mail to potential ticket buyers &#8220;from&#8221; her.&nbsp; Would artists be uncomfortable lending their names to such direct marketing of their concerts? Would it sell more tickets? It certainly gets my attention when names of artists who I don&#8217;t work for pop up in the ol&#8217; Inbox. Like if &#8220;Arvo P\u00e4rt&#8221; had &#8220;e mailed&#8221; to &#8220;tell me personally about&#8221; his <i>In Principio <\/i>disc? I would have knocked over the laptop reaching to open that. <i><em><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the production company AEG Live is e mailing potential ticket buyers as Michael Jackson&#8211;&#8220;MJ&#8221;, to a few hundred thousand of his closest friends, actually&#8211;to promote the upcoming movie This is It, which features Jackson&#8217;s last rehearsals. Obviously this is beyond absurd because the man passed away. That said, it did make me think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}