It became as much of an internet joke as you’d expect. Oh, and Instagram was the TikTok of its day.Īnyway, when you signed up for a MySpace account, the company’s co-founder Tom Anderson was automatically everyone’s first friend and placed at number one in their top eight friends list.īasically, imagine if when you signed up for Facebook, the first thing that happened was that it told everyone you were in a relationship with Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook, by the way, was the Instagram of its day. It was the Facebook of its day, before Facebook came along with a properly functioning website and took all of its users. Younger readers may not really remember MySpace. Then came the clincher: “He said to us: ‘If you sign to MySpace, I’ll make it so that everybody who signs up is automatically friends with Tom and The Cribs'”. And he wanted Ryan to teach him ‘Another Number’ on guitar, so we have a covert video of that!” He flew us to Los Angeles and made a huge pitch – it was global takeover stuff. The band’s bassist Gary Jarman tells the NME: “Tom from MySpace was a massive Cribs fan and tried to sign us. And is now most famous for not signing The Cribs. A label that was previously most famous for not closing down in 2010. Which, if nothing else, is a reminder that MySpace once had a spin-off record label. Tom from MySpace once tried to sign The Cribs. And Finally Artist News Business News Digital Labels & Publishers The Cribs turned down MySpace Records signing after Tom said he’d make everyone friends with them By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 9 February 2021
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