Letters to the Editor
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wtf?
2 songs now? not selling enough? what are you getting out of this deal?
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@Desi, cut
To answer your question -- posed in another thread also -- I'm not getting any cut from posting her songs. Neither is Salon. Thanks for your interest.
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I guess this is why gansta rappers shoot each other, or threaten to
It's marketing. Odd, yes, especially when one of them gets killed, but no one said keepin it real was real safe.
G's up Ho's down.
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Ashley's Income
Actually, non-legal forms of income are as taxable as the legal ones. Don't forget, that's how they finally nabbed Al Capone, for tax evasion.
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bear with me please, i'm trying hard to understand what's happening here....
so farhad, you're saying that you (salon) are posting her songs out of the goodness of your hearts to help her out? hmm, so if i choose to be a highly paid prostitute (unlike all those women who genuinely are exploited) and then manage to get into the limelight, i will be helped out by the media to further my, say, poultry business?
Please forgive me if i sound abrasive, i'm a little confused here. the point i'm trying to make is, looks like either this woman hired a great publicist, so that her songs would be available for download on sites like Salon and indirectly from the NYT (where her myspace page is bandied about), or its just a great traffic magnet to your sites (not that you need this kind of articles for attracting people now, do you?). she clearly has made a bunch of money in her prostitution business, and then states in the NYT article that she has no way to pay the rent since her boyfriend walked out on her when she discovered his children. what is she trying to say? that she's single and available to be taken care of?
my question is, why is this woman being the positive publicity she does not deserve?
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Yes, did she have to get nekkid
"In the last two days, Eliot Spitzer's escort may have made more than $1,000 an hour, and she didn't even have to take her clothes off"
Actually, if she had never taken her clothes off, she would not have made the sums you cite, because no one would have cared about her music without her having been Spitzer's hot call-girl.
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@Desi
"my question is, why is this woman being the positive publicity she does not deserve?"
If you're asking why I wrote about her, it's because she's newsworthy. Your reading the piece would suggest you agree, but if you don't, that's fine with me.
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she has to pay taxes on both incomes
Didn't you ever hear of Al Capone?
It doesn't matter how you earned it - it's still illegal not to pay taxes on it.
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dont mean to pick on you, but i'm just confused....
she is obviously newsworthy, what with her pics being splashable and all. i read because i am trying to make sense of a meaningless world where more and more, thinking that one can get by based on genuine talent is stupidity, and i should probably just use my boobs to get those gigs. i read because i am trying to make sense of my cynicism and my naivite within the framework of this life (and i am only 30, but i guess that's too old for a woman these days to get a start in the media). i read because i am trying to make sense of why she is being portrayed as a victim, why NYT calls her a star. no i am not asking for her to be put in a ducking chair, i am just wondering why the positive publicity? what about balanced analysis? or maybe the head shouldn't be working in such cases.
9:00pm on a friday night, i'm out. thanks for responding, farhad and i really don't mean to pick on you in particular, just that everyone's posting whatever, so i'm also thinking aloud on an available forum.
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Sue her?
I wonder if Mrs Spitzer could sue the hooker for profiting off of her criminal behaviour?
Seems a shame someone like this should profit off the destruction of their actions.
But then I agree with the other poster. It seems all a female has to do to get famous is have fake body parts installed, get photographed pantiless and shaved, have a sex tape released on the Internet, or be a friend of Paris Hilton.
I cringe for my gender. So many talented women out there but if they aren't (in)famous in a sexual context, forget about it.
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desi_grrl
I didn't read the article and didn't realize there's a link to hear her radiant talent; I just started reading the letters out of curiosity. As a female who didn't have to grow up with this syncophantic shit, all I can say is, desi_grrl, I am really, really sorry.
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Why they link to her songs
Because people are going to want to hear them (obviously, since she has apparently sold a bunch of them in the last couple of days), which makes them interesting content, which is beneficial to Salon. Time on site is something large web sites sell to advertisers, and keeping people here instead of sending them off to find things elsewhere helps raise the rates.
This is, after all, a commercial enterprise.
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Good for Ashley
It's funny. This is an exploitative act also but it's one that ultimately gets Ashley where she wants to be and doesn't risk her health. She's no Mariah Carey or Alycia Keys but then neither are Britney Spears, Madonna or Rihanna. Given the very cheap quality of these tracks, Ashley actually appears to have some talent, vocal talent anyway. Song writing not so much.
I don't know why some people seem bitter about this girl profiting in a big way from this scandal. She clearly needs the money since her other job is gone and she will have to pay taxes on at least some of the money she did not declare as income. Her educational background is slight so I say make the money while you can girl, but in a legal way this time.
As for Spitzer's wife, she lost all grounds for outrage when she stood by him TWICE in a public setting. Once I can fathom. Repeatedly? No. She's now going the Hillary Clinton route of identifying with her man's behavior and legitimizing it. From what we've heard, she didn't think he should leave the governor's mansion either. Can we say "enabler?"