Shayan Italia - Reflection

Craigsgirl

26-10-2007

Heard this song on Radio 2 the other day and loved it. Has anyone heard this as well? I've been hearing it quite a lot over the past few days and the single will be out on November 5th on iTunes and such. I'll definitely be downloading it!

I think you can download snippets on his site: www.shayanitalia.com

Poodledoodledoo

26-10-2007

It's a strange song. The lyrics are a bit odd and don't seem to fit the music. I can't say that I like it personally. Actually, the video doesn't help - way too cheesy.

fizzybird

26-10-2007

Originally Posted by Craigsgirl:
“Heard this song on Radio 2 the other day and loved it. Has anyone heard this as well? I've been hearing it quite a lot over the past few days and the single will be out on November 5th on iTunes and such. I'll definitely be downloading it!

I think you can download snippets on his site: www.shayanitalia.com”

Hmm.. hold on a minute -

Originally Posted by Craigsgirl:
“I saw this guy's video 'Reflection' on B4 the other day and I liked the laid-backness (is that even a word?) of it. I did some digging on Google and he's quite the entrepeneur. According to an article in The Guardian he sold shares in his career on Ebay to fund his debut album and raised 9k this way. Go him. I think he deserves some kudos for that, so check out the video:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mk0bJzObTkQ”

Hmm.. hang on, that rings a bell -

Originally Posted by Craigsgirl:
“I've been listening a lot to a singer called Shayan Italia lately and I did some digging on him the other day and found an article in the Guardian about how he sold shares in his career in Ebay, raised 9 grand that way to fund his debut album.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_ne...156424,00.html

Very clever way of making some money to record an album though, before you get signed. It certainly beats making a demo in your living room for next to nothing!

It got me thinking though, if I would ever do something like that. There are so many ways these days to try and make it and it seems a relatively risk-free undertaking to do something like this.

Would anyone on here ever do this?”

So many questions and so much information, with so few other posts - and I keep seeing similar posts like this on some of the other forums I go to - you know, it sounds to me that this bloke is spending his eBay money on a street team.

Craigsgirl

29-10-2007

I completely forgot I had opened a thread about here already. Sorry 'bout that. I just like the guy and like you I visit other forums as well, and I just like to spread the word, nothing wrong with that, right?