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One could always look at www.kdlang.com for information.
Oh sorry! Silly me! What was I thinking!
They just don't learn do they?
Perhaps that's why we all feel so sentimental about Bumstead!

Well precisely Wendy.
If only kd knew what her customers do, that her career has been undermined by appalling PR and the worst website on the net since she changed Management.
The Watershed one has been much less of a fiasco than previous ones, in fact comparatively good but why is there no indication of an album release in a few weeks when it is mentioned on Amazon?

It has been said countless times on her fan sites. Little exposure on radio, less and less on TV, no adverts in the Press or on posters and what there is is easy to miss because of an official website that should have been her shop window on the world but has been more characterised by abandonment and misinformation than accurate news over the years.
It is impossible to calculate what all this has cost her but it is inconceivable that her career hasn't suffered.
I remember seeing her up in lights in Times Square but that was when she was managed by Bumstead.

She didn't know what her Business Manager was doing for many years, namely helping herself to kd's money.

She attributes the decline of her career to an album that was a movie soundtrack which supposedly "confused" the Music Industry. It didn't.

In fact the decline of her career corresponded with her signing on with Direct Management and becoming almost invisible and impossible to stay focused on and informed about. She disappeared. Not everyone looks at fan sites.

If you don't pay attention to what other people you are paying do and just trust to luck that they will do the job well I'm afraid it all too often doesn't happen.

She would travel the world to promote an album and people wouldn't even know she had been in their country because there was nothing about it on her website and no adverts. anywhere.

Let's hope this won't be like the Hymns project where the album wasn't put onto her website until three months after it had been released and then with the following year on the cover. Despite emails to her Managers and Nonesuch it took a year to correct that and then only because Shelley managed to make contact with someone at Warners ( who she was no longer signed up with) who didn't ignore her as everyone else did and promised to have a word with someone. He said, "Management is aware that kd lang's website is an embarrassment!"

Why has kd allowed it? Perhaps she is just too trusting to check. It has been a very great shame, to put it mildly.

Obvious Gossip was closed down because it was the end of the Bumstead era. When David Maddocks was made reduntant it is true he threatened to sue and it was settled out of Court.
I am not certain whether kd personally, Sire Records or Bumstead funded it but it was clear in OG's dying months that kd had lost interest. David was left saying that the only news was no news and rumours about kd's health and retirement were untrue. He was no longer in contact with her.
There were no more interviews with kd, even to answer outstanding questions for the final issue. One did not get any sense that she felt sentimental about making the final issue special.
She wrote a very brief note but it was clear that she felt the whole thing was unnecessary.

David wrote in the final issue og OG that one should not use Fan sites...."Rumour and gossip" but only use the Official website which would be constantly updated with news in busy times. He said the way forward was the Internet ( which was true) and that those who did not have access to a computer ( 60% of members according to a recent poll) should find an internet cafe near them and go there often.
The site was then abandoned and the rest is history.The culture of not only not informing fans of what was happening but wasting their time with incorrect information was established.

Had kd have had good Management they would have ensured that her PR was effective and that her work was properly marketed.

As things turned out, it all went downhill from then onwards. As has been said before, in addition to confusing and time-wasting misinformation, there was never even any mention of Nonesuch, Artist Direct or her Agent on her website. She really did disappear.


I remember the first stirrings of anger when, during the Invincible Summer project fans were asked to phone their local radio station to ask for kd's new Single to be played and someone wrote that as they hadn't bothered to tell us what the Single was or when it was released why should we go to trouble having to find out elsewhere and do that for them. It was the start of the realisation that courtesy and consideration for other people's time was no longer to be expected and Kennedyflairs, along with Langsters ( now defunct) were born.

It is clear from her many interviews that she is oblivious to what we all feel was a and possibly THE major cause of the decline of her career and she certainly has not given the impression that she didn't care that that had happened. She ascribes it to Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.