Sometimes in life things have a tendency of coming back around when you’ve already counted them out. Fashion, boy bands, ex’s, MySpace. I’ve heard some rumblings about MySpace round 2 but I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to it until my friend, singer/songwriter, Kelly McNutt started rebuilding her space at Myspace. Justin Timberlake, part owner of Specific Media, has become MySpace’s creative consultant. Timberlake will work with a six person staff to seek undiscovered talents via MySpace. Tim Vanderhook, the man that spent $35 million on Myspace’s facelift, calls Timberlake ‘the creative force who helps reinvent the site and make it a digital hub of entertainment content for millions’. As it stands, has 70 million users worldwide and hosts MySpace Music that catalogs thirty-eight million songs and 700,000 musicians. Timberlake is confident in MySpace’s comeback saying, “There’s a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers and just connect. Art is inspired by people and vice versa, so there’s a natural social component to entertainment. I’m excited to help revitalize MySpace by using its social media platform to bring artists and fans together in one community.”
MySpace has picked up some Facebook features. You can “like” pages and artists and you can request to “follow” artists. You’re also able to connect your Twitter feed into your MySpace page now. I’m a fan of this concept. I think to have social media sites at war with each other, isn’t going to do any good. Social media is a place where everyone can connect and stay informed. Connecting social media with elements of each site, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, is a good start. My MySpace account is still around somewhere collecting dust and while I don’t imagine it’s a place I’d use as a place to socially connect, I do like the idea of having a place to interact with artists. I have a crush on entertainers that push themselves forward, up and comers impress and inspire me. I love to see the passion and determination it takes in someone to go after their dreams in a reckless abandonment kind of way. If MySpace can become a spot for artists to do that, then I fully support MySpace the reprise
