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Musician too "fat" for her record label
Feministing —
Via the f word, we find out that Amanda Palmer of Dresden Dolls fame has left her record label after they refused to promote her new single and video (above) because of her "fat" stomach. Seriously.
[Palmer] refused 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 ...
Impossibly Beautiful
Shakesville —
Part Twenty-One in an ongoing series… Laura at The F Word (via Jessica): Incredibly cool and beautiful 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 ...
So who’s “fat” now?
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Amanda Marcotte
If you haven’t seen this already, it’s one of those “are you kidding me?” stories. Amanda Palmer, who headed up the Dresden Dolls, put together a video for her song “Leeds United” off her new solo album. The song leaves me cold (I was amused to read that Ben Folds produced it, and then congratulated myself for relatively consistent taste), but the video is pretty looking, and owes a lot to the creepy scenes with the Master of Ceremonies in “Cabaret”.* It seems like the least controversial thing ever. ...
