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Celeb News: Pink Floyd Producer to Dr. Luke: "Free Ke$ha"
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Pink Floyd Producer to Dr. Luke: "Free Ke$ha"
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In the wee early hours of June 28, 2012 Wayne Coyne discussed Instagram with Grace Potter and Chris Pontius in front of MTV’s cameras webcasting The Flaming Lips’ 24 hour tour. Coyne had recently joined the social media giant, but admitted to Grace et al he didn’t know how to use it.
My how that changed. By this time last year Instagram had become virtually Wayne’s sole social media outlet (yes, he uses twitter – but mostly just auto-tweets from his Instagram account, or retweets of fans). Since then he’s posted a treasure trove of concert photos, behind-the-scenes images of current Flaming Lips projects, rare band pictures and posters from their 30 year career, shots with other musicians (Patrick Carney, Kesha, Jack White, Kevin Parker, etc), weird art, playful selfies and random scenes from his daily life. All 1227 photos are gone now however, since Instagram closed his account Saturday.
It’s no secret that Wayne has directed controversial music videos, drawn graphic cartoons and posted **** images on social media.
Although his infamous photos of his wife Michelle were in his pre-Instagram days, some of his IG posts are questionably in violation of their terms of use (the social media site clearly prohibits “sexually suggestive photos,” but unclearly avoids defining boundaries). Most of Wayne’s photos were not questionable however. Sure they’re colorful - pictures of Patrick from The Black Keys wearing a T of Wayne flipping thee bird, jokes about getting drunk with Oklahoma’s Governor – but overwhelmingly within code. The pictures that got him kicked off have not been specified, but it’s speculated to be photos of The Womb art gallery showing art themed around birth posted the day before his account was shut down:
The bottom line is banning his account does not stop Wayne from posting more photos (under a different user name), it only prohibits fans from seeing past posts we value. Aside from losing those among his 47306 former followers that don’t find his new account, Wayne is not being punished – we the fans are.
This is not just a #thirdworldproblem for fans though.
Wayne is also extremely generous with his Instagram, frequently plugging artists he comes across or works with. Deleting these messages is wiping the slate of the attention Wayne brings to these lesser known artists, potentially hurting them far more than the ban could impact Wayne, a well-established figure. Among the first to sign the petition to bring back Wayne’s account was Jack Ingalls, frontman of Spaceface and keyboardist/ guitarist for the Lips on tour. He hits the nail on the head writing, “Aside from maybe posting occasional suggestive pictures, Wayne uses this account to help out other struggling artists and musicians by keeping everyone updated on who he’s working with etc. All of his posts come only from a place of love and it makes no sense that you can’t just remove the one offensive photo, especially if you’ve given other artists said privilege. To remove his whole account seems like a move to inhibit a community of artists, rather than slap a man on the wrist..”
Please sign this petition to restore the banned account (and missing photos): thefutureheart.com/instagram-petition.
This will be sent to Instagram to state our case that deleting his account punishes us, Wayne’s fans, as well as lesser known artists – not him. We are requesting his account be treated the same as other celebrities who have posted photos violating their terms of use yet remain active (i.e. Tyler, the Creator, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Chrissy Teigen, Heidi Klum, Miranda Kerr).
And while we’re on the topic of rally calls…
. . . fans are also petitioning on behalf of Kesha.
“Ke$ha, young and naive at the age of 18, was signed to [blockbuster hit producer Dr.] Luke’s 8 album contract,” the petition asserts. “She wants the world to hear her music and not the pop factory’s unauthentic, soulless babble she is forced to call hers.” In making the case that “Dr. Luke is controlling ke$ha like a puppet,” the petition quotes Wayne Coyne’s April 3, 2013 interview with Billboard: “She struggles with the idea, ‘why can’t I make the music that I want to make.’“
Among the 1200 and counting to have signed is legendary producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, KISS) who worked with Kesha on her collaboration with Alice Cooper, “What Baby Wants.” Marked as signee #230, he writes, “Ke$ha is one of the most talented singers I have ever worked with – and she is more than that: she’s a real artist. In our business, this is rare and must always be celebrated and allowed to flourish…every real artist needs to be the author of their own destiny to be fulfilled.”
Read and sign the full petition to free Kesha here.
In an effort to bring attention to the petition, fans with connections are leaking unreleased out-takes from Kesha’s last album, Warrior. Kesha collaborated with Coyne on at least six tracks during these sessions last year, all cut from the final album by Dr. Luke (“Past Life” was issued as a deluxe edition bonus track; no others have been released or leaked). The more signatures, the more likely additional songs will leak. So far “Pretty Lady” and “Meet Me In Space” have surfaced:
http://thefutureheart.com/
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Hot Chelle Rae and Chris Crocker have also signed the petition, please help us reach our so ke$ha can have her freedom.
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I'll sign too. I mean, Animal and Cannibal were great but Warrior sucks and now I feel sorry for her 
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This is all so pointless
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Originally posted by KillingYourCareer
I'll sign too. I mean, Animal and Cannibal were great but Warrior sucks and now I feel sorry for her |
Animal and Cannibal were the result of K$ being under the control of Luke too
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As much as i love Warrior and as great it is, she still needs creative control 
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She signed an 8 album deal 
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Originally posted by Kiss N Tell
his is all so pointless
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are you saying that it's pointless to make her happy? it's what she wants
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Do we even know if Ke$ha even wants her freedom?
She might like where she's at.
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I wish y'all would stop with this.
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the future heart though? and some of these receipts that they bring up just kinda makes it sound like it's made by a fan...
I will reread later though
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Originally posted by jamesmax
are you saying that it's pointless to make her happy? it's what she wants
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Would you be saying this if Warrior was a smash album? This is what she wanted when she signed with Luke
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Originally posted by LP54
Do we even know if Ke$ha even wants her freedom?
She might like where she's at.
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Stop this . She'll be paid dust with luke
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I doubt a petition will work, but yeah Ke$ha deserves freedom. I wish the music industry would go back to the basics and let the music/art speak for itself....and not the product that music has become these days, which sucks a whole lotta energy and life out of what is music nowadays, just to make some easy bucks
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No seriously. Has she actually said she wants her freedom or retweeted a petition?
I don't go off of second hand quotes. I want something from her. I don't follow her enough to actually know.
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Can I sign up as Lady Gaga and sign the petition too?
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Originally posted by LP54
No seriously. Has she actually said she wants her freedom or retweeted a petition?
I don't go off of second hand quotes. I want something from her. I don't follow her enough to actually know.
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!!!!! X 1000.
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Originally posted by LP54
No seriously. Has she actually said she wants her freedom or retweeted a petition?
I don't go off of second hand quotes. I want something from her. I don't follow her enough to actually know.
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Her TV show highlighted the issue, her book spoke about it and she's made a stand against it throughout her tour by performing Machine Gun Love.
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Originally posted by Kiss N Tell
Would you be saying this is Warrior was a smash album? This is what she wanted when she signed with Luke |
I don't think she expected to be so tightly controlled after her debut album, though. It's possible that she signed with the hope of being granted more creative freedom once she proved herself. You can't expect her to have had that much foresight at 18 to know this is not how things would work out, being new to the music industry and all.
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Originally posted by BlooRiverAnimal
!!!!! X 1000.
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 aren't you supposed to be a stan
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