February 22, 2011

Ray Stevens and the TSA, Part 7...

Good Tuesday morning all Ray Stevens fans! Throughout the night I was keeping track of the You Tube video hits of "The Skies Just Ain't Friendly Anymore" and the numbers kept on flying higher and higher. At one point the play total was 20,110...another time the number was up to 23,859...and just a few minutes ago the most recent play total for the video was up to 31,649!! If all of this wasn't great enough I also discovered that the Mp3 digital single of "The Skies Just Ain't Friendly Anymore" had cracked the Top-100 of Amazon's comedy single chart. 2 hours ago it was sitting at #48, 1 hour ago it had jumped to #36, and this hour it's sitting at #17! I'd been monitoring the Amazon rankings since the single became available back on February 8th, checking the product page a couple of times each day, and this was the first time it had been ranked on a Top-100 best-seller list. Coincidentally today marks the second week of commercial availability of the song which spoofs the TSA.

As the single and the music video continue to fly into the stratosphere of success it's worth mentioning that the mainstream music critics haven't really discovered the song yet. We all know the routine when it comes to a lot of the mainstream critics...prepare to see negative criticisms that label the song 'flighty', for example. Also, I can picture some of them using the expression 'I hope the song crashes and burns'.

It's scary when even I can predict how critics will react to something!!

Maybe a lot of the critics will surprise us and drop their preconceived negative idea's of who they think Ray Stevens is and listen to the song with an open mind? I don't think that will happen, either, so don't anyone out there hold their breath.

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