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theshadowbox.net - 12/1/2008
FUCK ROADRUNNER...
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Amanda just sent out this email... hola comrades!!! the new video for "leeds united" is UP on youtube. go see! it's directed by alex de campi, shot in london, starring EVERYBODY we knew in london...including some awesome football hooligans. we had SO MUCH help making this video i don't even know ...

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Musician too "fat" for her record label
Feministing — ... to let them remove shots of her "fat" belly from the video for Leeds United (see above), and is therefore "uncommercial". This comes from a metal label where, I have it on good authority, "you can count the number of women on the fingers of one hand and most of the people on the label are decidedly chunky hairy dudes". Amanda's fans are quite rightly outraged by this shoddy, sexist behaviour and have begun a Rebellyon, posting pictures of their own bellies on fan forum Shadowbox and sending them to Roadrunner in protest. Too ridiculous for words ...

Impossibly Beautiful
Shakesville — ... singer Amanda Palmer (of Dresden Dolls fame) has been forced to search for a new record label after Roadrunner refused to promote her latest single, video and album. Why? Because she refused to let them remove shots of her "fat" belly from the video for Leeds United (see above), and is therefore "uncommercial". … Amanda's fans are quiet rightly outraged by this shoddy, sexist behaviour and have begun a Rebellyon, posting pictures of their own bellies on fan forum Shadowbox and sending them to Roadrunner in protest: This issue is not just ...

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