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Originally Posted by lorenzoduke
If someone catches say, the BBC doc or a bit of a ML song as they're going about their day and think 'hmm, I used to like/quite like Meat Loaf. I wonder if he's up to anything lately' the first thing they will do is Google 'Meat Loaf official', head to his 'official' site, see a worthless mess and probably give it up as a bad job.
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Actually I think anyone who did this would see they can sign up for tour updates, and also see the invitation to join him on Facebook.
It's not really a "site" as such now; as I said, just a foothold to direct people to his FB page .. which attracted a significant number of new people in the days after the documentary and a sharp peak in "likes", so perhaps people didn't give the search up as a bad a job as you might imagine.
The site you reference makes it clear that you cannot contact the artist .. on FB fans can and do. They don't always get replies .. but they're in with a chance, and Meat often picks up on questions (Just recently someone posted a request for permission to play some of his songs at her son's funeral. Meat responded very quickly, offering condolences and saying she had no need to ask, but was welcome to have any songs played she wanted. Personally I find that kind of personal interest and interaction far more impressive than a slick website. And Meat DOES sell albums, sold out the Last At Bat tour, was invited to do two more residencies in Vegas on the back of the success of th first one .. and if he announced a set of tour dates on his page tomorrow he would fill those venues.
But fine .. let some say he doesn't embrace the internet, digital technology, YouTube etc, doesn't put effort into into an impressive website. He remains a successful artist, does what he sees fit, manages his affairs his own way, and perhaps feels that's his choice and works