Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the comely young call girl who was caught up in a scandal involving ex-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has posted new video on her MySpace Web page that disses the music industry. Dupre has been unseen and unheard from since her brief New York Times interview following the scandal. But in recently weeks, she has been reaching out in limited ways. The video by an unnamed male criticizes the music industry for its hypocritical reaction to her desire to become a singer.
The Ashley apologist in the video, which looks professionally produced, lampoons the “high-minded hand wringing from the music industry” over whether Dupre is worthy of a record deal. It specifically refers to, if not by name by title, to Capitol Records Senior A&R Director Chris Anokute,. “See if you can catch the reason why it sounds good and absolutely makes no sense. Here’s the full quote:
"I think her song is absolutely terrible. If people are interested in signing her, then they shouldn't be in the music business. It'd be a shame to exploit her talent based on the unacceptable reality that she was involved in. Most importantly, it destroyed multiple families. I don't think the scandal will help her at all. In fact, I think the public is a bit smarter than we think they are. Even though she's had over a million hits on her MySpace, I think people are just going there to see her pictures and laugh at her attempt to pursue a music career."
The video commentator responds by questioning how Dupre’s background compares to prominent rap artists. “Almost every record deal you gave out to every rapper in the last 15 years was based on the scandalous details of their criminal pasts, an “unacceptable reality that involves selling crack and shooting people,” he scolds. “The answer should be obvious,” the video continues, “but it’s not because this country has so many weird puritanical hang ups about sex.”
“The way we are so quick to pass judgment on Ashley Dupre says a lot more about our issues than it does her issues,” it adds. “More power to her. I just hope she doesn’t regret giving up the moral high ground after getting involved in this music business.”
The video is posted on YouTube. It’s unknown whether she was involved in the production, or it just caught her fancy. The male commentator is not named
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