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Audience within an audience?

Myspace featured a band called the Plain White T’s, and their soon to be huge song ‘Hey there Delilah’ was posted onto their page. Fans then recreated their own versions of the song, reposting them on their own myspace pages for others to see.

I found this interesting because I had seen something very similar on a gossip website last week. Heatworld.com featured a video clip of a Britney Spears fan who had posted a video of himself on Youtube defending the troubled star, then also posted a video of his own version of her new single ‘Gimme More’ which to me seemed a total pisstake/parody. This fan generated more media attention in that one week (from 2 video clips) than possibly Britney herself!