I haven't been to kd.lang.com for months and months, and had a look today and I am impressed. What a difference from the old days. Beautiful music playing on every page and is a very 'today' site,in other words,I am impressed.
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Your Signature ... Asha
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29/06/10 21:59:01 |
Agreed. It is certainly in a totally different class to what it was for nearly two decades but the ultimate test will be when kd becomes professionally active again.
Will it be reliable in ensuring one doesn't miss any news/concerts/tv appearances/interviews and so forth? That will be the real test. I would also feel happier if it restored a link to Kennedyflairs again as this site has loyally supported kd and informed fans when her website wasn't doing so, for a very long time. |
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09/07/10 23:43:14 |
Kennedyflairs along with some other links is back on kdlang.com.
It isn't easy to find. You have to click on, "More kd" on the opening page but we are back there. Thank you guys. 
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10/07/10 00:20:18 |
By the way, if anyone who is in contact with kd ever looks here will you PLEASE tell her that contrary to what that Canadian journalist told her....
NO-ONE ON KENNEDYFLAIRS HAS EVER SAID WE EXPECT KD TO COURT US!  We are not a bunch of unreasonable, demanding fools. We only asked for kd to be made aware of the importance of accurate and comprehensive news on her official website which for too long was not the case. That is all. Thank you. 
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10/07/10 01:14:47 |
from abstorch:
We are not a bunch of unreasonable, demanding fools. speak for yourself, doctor! |
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10/07/10 01:25:24 |
Hahaha, Fruitcake.
It's worth mentioning again, Abs. I'm pretty sure kd has a somewhat jaundiced view of her fans, and that statement will not have helped one bit. I'm sure people close to her read the forums. |
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10/07/10 14:48:19 |
Wendy, Fruitcake I am quite certain that kd has a jaundiced opinion of her fans based originally on her unforgivably poorly moderated public company provided websites that she may well have looked at from time to time and sometimes disparagingly referred to in interviews. Who could blame her, apart from the fact that her genuine fans were complaining to the Moderators and being ignored, unknown to her? The blue Warner Board ( and the Warner one before that,) the orange Artist Direct Fan Forum and worst of all, the iMusic Artist Direct board linked to her official website until it finally closed. Sociopaths,offensive, hostile posters and on the last Artist Direct site a Neo-Nazi was allowed to spread her/his hate and lies under multiple user-names for a very long time. Strangely perhaps, the one bigotry which one might have expected and which did occur but was relatively rare compared to everything else was homophobia. I can honestly say I was traumatized by a good deal that I read on that Artist Direct site, the only link to another site on her long-abandoned official Warner-run kdlang.com site at that time, from that Nazi ( Carmen/Niho/Uizi/Janna/Joaqine/Javacsript/etc.) There was also pornography claiming to be Shelley ( Kennedyflair) and her complaints and even threats to sue were ignored. I organised a letter-writing campaign to Artist Direct and Warners and we were all ignored. Is it then any wonder that kd has a low opinion of her fans? When she was then told that her fans expected her to "court" them, she might have said to that journalist, knowing as she must do from personal experience that they often misquote people, "Are you sure? I'm sure that doesn't apply to most of my fans. I'll take a look and see", but she didn't say that. She accepted it as a fact and said that she enjoys other artists' work without them expecting her to court them. Very sad. Maybe this all ties in with the lack of information and uncorrected misinformation that plagued kdlang.com for years. Fans are unpleasant people one doesn't need to consider. I just don't know. Let's hope with this new kdlang.com we can look forward to better information in the future.
Last Edited By: Abstorch 15/07/10 15:14:59.
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10/07/10 15:12:54 |
Sorry to rant on for so long.
The sun is shining. Go out and enjoy it. 
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10/07/10 18:51:57 |
Abs, rant away, please.
 I love to read your comments on issues like this, because you always speak sense. I wish people would take less notice of the loud-mouthed hate trolls on the internet and look deeper, to places like kfs here, to see what REAL fans like yourself are like, and what they really think, and that there are more of the good 'uns out there than bad. There has to be some hope that someone in kd's management takes a peek here, now and then. I think I noticed a change in the way kd was marketed after AYCE. It became more a case of "if you know of kd, then you'll buy her music anyway; no need to publicize it much". I think kd herself has said things along the lines of her music selling itself, rather than it being about her as a person. Surely her management team must realise how one song at the Olympics gave her such a boost in popularity making lots of new fans too and that it wouldn't take all that much to launch her back to the top. But I was surprised how quickly Recollection was left by the wayside and so far the new website looks great....BUT nothing really happens on it. One definitely has to think, some of that comes from kd herself, and it could be due to one too many bad stories that got back to her about the behaviour of some so-called "fans". It's sad if that's the case, because it feels a little like she'll always sing, but she's not bothered if she has lots of fans or not. |
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10/07/10 22:53:12 |
Well, then again "fans" are the regular customers. No customers, no job. An Official Website is your shop window unless you are so well publicized on radio, TV, in newspapers and posters in the street that it isn't necessary because you can't be missed.
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11/07/10 01:35:04 |
All very true, alas. I like to think that kd is no fool, and as far as her fans are concerned, most are genuine fans. To a certain extent, we have to assume kd is not overly concerned with being "advertised". As long as she can sing, that really appears to be her main focus.
Was it not kd that disbanded OG? I believe it was. I've never been sure that she was ever concerned to do anything other than to sing. The rest she left to others. I think at best, she was misguided. Even so, ultimately she must shoulder the blame. It's not as though she is naive in any way. l don't buy that for a moment. That said, l hope things will look up from now. Certainly kdlang.com is looking much better. lt's a start. |
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11/07/10 04:15:41 |
Sounds like all has not always been perfect in k.d.land. Oh well, is it anywhere??!!! I think not. Bottom line--I guess--is that k.d. has weathered all ups and downs well and continues to bless us occasionally (wish it was often) with her beautiful voice. Also, from recent reports--she's HAPPY with where she is and who she's with and what she's spending her time doing. Peace, contentment, and love--priceless.
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11/07/10 04:39:21 |
ha ha ha
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11/07/10 06:40:24 |
kd is hardly Priceless. ; )
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11/07/10 11:01:19 |
From things she has said in the past I don't think she was totally unconcerned about her reversal of success. Still, how many people have not had the opportunity to have been enriched by hearing her as we have? That is sad, I think. Oh well, let's now look to the future. |
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11/07/10 14:29:40 |
wendy----my Funk & Wagnall's defines "priceless" as being invaluable; of a value beyong estimation; very precious------------IMO that is a pretty good description of k.d., her voice, and the joy her fans experience when she shares herself with us.
Actually, my statement was that peace, contentment, and love were priceless------but so is k.d.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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11/07/10 14:38:52 |
Sorry, TAnnie. I was thinking of Jamie Price (less).
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11/07/10 16:32:36 |
wendy: ouch!
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11/07/10 16:43:38 |
Haha...I saw that capital 'P' , Wendy...
TAnnie, your gallant defense of k.d.'s pricelessness, though unnecessary, is noted. We really are 'all for one' here! ))) |
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11/07/10 18:30:49 |
wendy---OOOOOHH!!! Now I get it!!!! Sorry I misunderstood--I just didn't think long enough about what you said before I reacted.
 I thought my interpretation of your words didn't sound like you at all!!! Ya just gotta smack me over the head with a board sometimes to get something to sink into my brain!!! You are absolutely right--k.d. is hardly Priceless!!!
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11/07/10 20:43:01 |
TAnnie you are priceless!
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