Saturday, March 15, 2008

Web Hit Whore

In taking a page from Angelo's book I've decided to become a "Hit Whore", if you will, and see how many visits I can get by blogging about something salacious. And what could be more outrageous than the current scandal surrounding the former governor of New York and his expensive "visits" with high end call girl Ashley Alexandra Dupré.

Actually what got me interested in this besides my shameless curiosity, was that I heard that this girl was an aspiring musical artist and that she had a song out on a radio station in New York City as a result of all the attention she had been getting. So I thought it'd be interesting to hear the song and of course since I had that interest I figgered there'd be some others out there who would like to hear what kind of music a high dollar hooker can produce. So, here freshly ripped from her myspace page is Ashley Alexandra Dupré's hit song.



Yeah, so I dunno if you bothered to listen to the whole thing or not I mean honestly it's not really all that catchy so I don't really see this thing going anywhere. In fact, according to mtv.com the song has been pulled from rotation on Z100 in NYC after only a couple of days.

Ashley Alexandra Dupré (born Ashley Youmans), the alleged call girl known as "Kristen" at the center of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal, appeared to hit it big yesterday, when her song "What We Want" was added to Z100's playlist.

"Z100 is all about playing what's hot, and we can't think of anything hotter than a song from the woman at the center of the scandal that took down the governor of New York," Tom Poleman, senior vice president of programming at the New Jersey-based radio station, said in a statement released Thursday. "On top of that, it's not a bad song. Looks like she may have a new career; this time in music."

But just as fast as Spitzer vacated his post, Dupré's song has now been reeled in at Z100. As of Friday afternoon, the track — a pulsating dance number that sounds like it was scraped from the cutting-room floor of a J. Lo recording session — was being playing sparingly on Z100, but not nearly with as much regularity as it had the day before.


Ah well...thank God for looks huh. Speaking of which, when I first saw her picture I thought she bore a striking resemblance to Sandra Bullock, don't ya think?



So...this is what it's like to join in on a media frenzy. Now lets see what it does for my hit traffic...hmm...somehow I now feel kinda dirty.

Letterman's Top Ten of the Day:

Top Ten Surprises During Eliot Spitzer's Resignation
  1. Entered to the sounds of Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'"
  2. Opening line: "Are you a cop?"
  3. Spent two minutes seductively stroking the microphone
  4. Reaffirmed his policy of "Bro's before Ho's"
  5. His decision not to wear pants
  6. Admitted he also once made out with former Governor Pataki
  7. Credited downfall to fast-paced lifestyle of Albany
  8. He was kinda pitchy, dawg
  9. Said he thought the Emperor's Club was a Chinese restaurant
  10. When reporters asked how much he paid per hour, his wife said, "Believe me, he doesn't need an hour"

1 comment:

Bruce A. Bateman said...

Exciting though that song is, (read sounds like a Lil Kim rubber stamp) Ms Dupre' should probably keep that day, errr night job.

So did it work? Did traffic increase proportionately? And if it did/does, what will be the advantage? Do you have hit based ads or is the experiment done just to slake your own curiosity?

Should be interesting to find out.