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November 30, 2006

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Apple tells Kevin Smith to keep it short

Posted Nov. 30, ’06, 6:27 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | iTunes

Kevin Smith I don’t buy much music on iTunes, but I look at celebrity playlists far more often than is healthy. It’s no secret that I love Kevin Smith Films. I even bought a shirt that has a big bold 37 on the front. How cool would it be to see his musical tastes? Apple messed up a good thing.

Cut to three weeks ago, when - as another promotional vehicle for the “Clerks II” DVD - I was afforded a second bite at the iTunes apple (pun intended). With a more comfortable alottment of hours to lavish on crafting a playlist and honest explanations for track inclusions beyind “Because this song rocks”, I buried myself in my iTunes library, culling through ten thousand plus tracks, searching for the songs that’d represent my “desert island” choices. A day later, I submitted it to the publicity folks at Genius (the home video label of the Weinstein Company).

“This is a great playlist,” Darin from Apple wrote. “Too great, actually. We don’t have the space for comments that run that long. Will he be OK with us editing them (significantly) or would he prefer to do that himself? Two sentences for each track is a good outline.”

Rather than leave the comments long, Apple kept pushing to trim them down. That’s lame. And as such, Kevin said nevermind. Instead, he put them in his post with full length explanations for the song’s inclusion. Check it out, even if it’s not in iTunes.


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