This is an interesting evolution. Mia Rose is a guitarist singer who’s performed songs that have taken off on YouTube, her latest video has 419,129 views. A drummer that she doesn’t even know adds his drum track on top of her singing, then a bass player adds his. You can witness this evolution happen on all the embedded videos here.
Social Media is letting the world connect and share and create wonderful things never before possible. (and yes, all without a record label) Shel, I hope you see this, could be great material for your new book.
If you click through to YouTube, you’ll see that individuals leave video comments back to the creators.
Mia Rose Solo:
Duet: Mia Rose with Drummer she’s never met:
Part 3: Trio: Mia Rose, Drummer she’s never met, and Bass Player she’s never met:
Conversations occur in many languages, this is just another example of how the web is bringing a musical conversation to life. This is beautiful!
I fully credit Pageman for literally putting all these videos on the same page.
Update Jan 27th: There appears to be some exposing and some backlash from some folks in the YouTube community suggesting that Mia Rose is a lonelygirl clone. In this video a screenshot of this blog is even shown on 1:47. Additional videos here. Be sure to read all the comments below.
Rolling Stone magazine has more.
What’s the truth? I have no idea, what’s interesting is the outcome of the three musicians. Is this a fraud? If so, then you’re really tarnishing the credibility of quite a few things I believe in.
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That is really cool…think of all those labels, brokers, and middle men in Utah this weekend trying to score the next big thing…they could spend a little less money making the deal happen if they were paying attention to things like this.
Posted by josh maher on January 19th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Talent is sprouting up in many forms because of the internet. The story is not new, but I still get excited when I see things like this
Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 19th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Didn’t the guys from MyBlogLog also meet & create the company via the web? Also a pretty cool story (they sold to Yahoo!).
Posted by Damon Billian on January 19th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
This is fantastic! Wow, now Mia can get a record deal and go on a tour. This is another example of the beauty of the web = connecting the right people easily. Where did you dig it out, Jeremiah? Made my night!
Posted by Yulia on January 19th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
[...] What an interesting find Jeremiah, the web strategist, shared with us tonight. A beautiful ( I can afford to say that) ), talented guitarist singer Mia shares her creativity on YouTube, very sweet piece. Then, another user adds drums to the composition and the third contributes bass! You can view the genesis of a new band that is proven to be successful and those people never met in real life..yet! I am sure Mia will be approached by conventional agents/record dealers now! I would even recommend her for American Idol…perhaps there should be a web version of it with all the web rules, users and viewers would be judges and so on! Opportunities, opportunities. This is another great application of web…just share your talent and the right people would flock to you and in the end you have a group set up…How social it is from the web to provide such a good “relationship” management job! Learn more and actually go and view the videos at Jeremiah’s blog. [...]
Posted by memesponge.com » Blog Archive » Magic Happens when Internet Serendipitously Connects the Right People! on January 19th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
[...] pcs Open Music Collaboration on YouTube Posted on January 22nd, 2007 in Video, Music, Media by Mike Abundo Stories like this make memarvel at the remix culture enabled by social media. This is an interesting evolution. Mia Rose is a guitarist-singer who’s performed songs that have taken off on YouTube. Her latest video has 419,129 views. A drummer that she doesn’t even know adds his drum track on top of her singing, then a bass player adds his. You can witness this evolution happen on all the embedded videos here. [...]
Posted by Open Music Collaboration on YouTube on January 21st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Got it, Jeremiah. She’s very talented.
Posted by shel israel on January 22nd, 2007 at 12:20 am
That comment went off before I could complete the comment. She’s very cool and the combo sounds like it practices together and with her for hours every day.
Posted by shel israel on January 22nd, 2007 at 12:21 am
Yes, pretty cool.
Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 22nd, 2007 at 11:27 am
This girl appeared from nowhere and had her ratings bolstered by a litany of bogus accounts that were literally created on the day of her arrival at youtube. Her talent is marginal at best, and while she has a marketable look, she is far from the best talent youtube has to offer.
She has moved to LiveWeb following a number of videos exposing her as a media creation, and by some strange coincidence, unlike most youtubers who post videos, she has all of them archived?
She is clearly a fabrication of media groups like yours, sir - and I think if you were being honest, you’d admit complicity on her creation.
Posted by captain obvious on January 25th, 2007 at 11:03 am
captain obvious
I’m not aware of the creation of her music, and frankly that’s not the point of this post.
If she’s a fraud, fine. Let’s expose her.
I’m still impressed with the drummer and bass player adding their own content on top this.
Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 25th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Please take a look. That’s kinda dodgy..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vdMsTKgok
Posted by David on January 26th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
ok im lost cause what is happein is 2 people are filling in her song and that called fraud? ok if so im totally against this website!
Posted by kirsty on February 3rd, 2007 at 10:05 am
Why would you be against THIS website (web-strategist.com) I’m not involved with Mia Rose in any way.
Try reading my post VERY CAREFULLY. I disclose that I have no idea what is going on, sheesh.
Posted by jeremiah_owyang on February 3rd, 2007 at 10:36 am
Hi Jeremiah,
thanks for the credits and elaborating on this web strategy. Miaarose might be the next lonelygirl but the globe-spanning, online collaboration that spontaneously came together is Proof of Concept that New Media can be created this way.
How do I trackback to this post?
rgds,
The Pageman
Posted by The Pageman on February 12th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Just link to me and it’ll show up
Thanks for swinging by
Posted by jeremiah_owyang on February 12th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
[...] A few weeks ago, I showed how Social Media is helping YouTube musicians share online and create ‘virtual bands’ such as this video of beautiful and amazing singer and soloist, be sure to watch these videos. (Although there’s been some backlash on her YouTube authenticity and PR tactics). [...]
Posted by Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Real Time Music Creation with eJamming on March 8th, 2007 at 10:18 am
This is what the Internet was made for.
People coming together to bring a sense of joyous / good feeling.
In terms of the technology required to do this, it is great that are now products that allow people to mix audio locally.
Not applicable in this case but there is the issue of licensing and mash-ups when it comes to sampling. Recently I advised an organisation on the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society and Performing Rights Society licensing laws. Amazingly, even if a 2 second sample is used, a royalty is due. It could be argued that this is a barrier to creativity. However, the rules also say that if a musician has given permission to use their track then it can be used royalty free.
Credit to those who spent the time and dedicated themselves to working together without ego but just creativity in their hearts.
i.e: although the track was manufacturered virtually, there is a true sense of raw energy and a positive vibe when you listen to it.
Posted by Dr Savi on March 8th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Jeremiah, Great job putting this together. Very insightful. This is just the beginning of social media collaboration. Many artists working together to increase the number of possible solutions and outcomes. Solid work.
Posted by Kim Patrick Kobza on March 29th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Strange timing, as yesterday was the first time I met some of the people who work with me to put out a free online PDF magazine, Disposable Media (www.disposablemedia.co.uk).
And that’s after about 16 months as Editor, and about 6 issues!
(And DM definitely isn’t a fraud…)
Even if the Mia Rose example is exposed as a fraud, I’ve heard of similar things happening for a while now - and it can still inspire others to give it a try.
Posted by Dan Thornton on March 30th, 2008 at 5:54 am
[...] missed the beginning of this story last year but Jeremiah added it this morning: Social Media Evolves Music Creation. I plan to help my daughter Katie promote her music online and this story gives us [...]
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