The Joey Factory

Relating my song If U Luv Me (Google Me) and music video.

FlotsamX(angry 12 year old): Lol, he put this video on viewtubetrain to promote his shitty singing because no one would google him.

j17productions(me): I got featured on there because I worked hard and to date have only gotten 2,000 views. 2: It looks like I’m not the only one who uses viewtubetrain, so it takes one to know one. 3: Google me and you’ll see who comes up on the top of the first page.(Must have worked somehow.)You must feel pretty great living your life anonymously on YouTube talking big shit, but who the fuck are you? I’m not afraid of who I am and I’m proud of my shitty singing. Thanks for your touching comments!
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I’m fully aware that Google Me is not a great song. I was fully aware when I created it and the truth is so many people just don’t get it. We as a society think we need to “get it” in order to like something or hate something. Rebecca Black’s song, Friday, is not a great song but we love to judge and we love how ridiculous it is. When you make a bad song on purpose it is a hit or miss. I just wanted to make fun of pop culture, our society, and of my own obsession with vanity and fame. A lot of my friends might think Google Me should be taken very seriously, sorry it’s just a joke. You are allowed to laugh and if you don’t find it funny that’s okay! I think I’m over rejection by now and I don’t mind standing on my own defending my silly song and mediocre singing.

As far as promoting videos if you use viewtubetrain.com enough you get featured and I’m not going to hide and say I don’t find free ways to promote my video. If you are whoring yourself on YouTube chances are you are gonna have to find ways, outside of YouTube, to promote your video. Each YouTube user has to compete with 35 hours of video that is uploaded every minute! That’s just a simple fact, so yes, you gotta share your video with everyone and yes, you gotta play the game. You also have to admit the fact that a small percentage of people will actually like your video, the more neanderthal the video is, the more the general public likes your video. So support my video of don’t, I don’t have time to sit here and convince a bunch of people to like my videos.

Thanks to those of you who have been supportive of my work.

Can’t see the video? Click here: video of Google Me.

It’s been a year since I found a way to submit my song If U Luv Me (Google Me) on iTunes. It was fairly simple to do, but selling it, has been a task in itself. Let’s just say it’s not a popular song on the radio and wasn’t written for that intention. Why was it written? Self love, self promotion, and to satire pop culture and the Gossip Queen himself Perez Hilton. It’s had some laughs and it’s had it’s criticisms, but all in all, it’s just a fun silly song.

When I started this blog last year I was determined to “dethrone” and conquer Perez Hilton’s spot in Pop culture because I was jealous. To be honest, I don’t want his job and I don’t want to spout like opinions and then get myself in trouble with The Black Eyed Peas. I am about drama, but I’m not about being the one to cause the drama. I do not renounce my opinion that I think Perez was in the wrong for calling will.i.am gay. That whole Toronto club situation and the way all parties handled it was wrong. But I’m over it.

What does that mean for Google Me? Nothing, really. I still feel strongly that it is a fun song, is it a hit sensation? No, and it never has to be because I made it for me. I think it’s funny and absurd and weird and it holds a special place in my heart. Above all I love the music video. As of today it’s been viewed 26,000 times and that’s an accomplishment for a non-celebrity status, but seriously make me famous! LOL!

With that being said, “Happy Birthday ‘Google Me’!”

Never seen it? Click below:

Click To Watch.

I know that in the pop industry we’ve been getting pretty lazy. For example we’ve been relying more on Auto Tune than our actual talent, if in fact we have the talent to begin with. More and more I feel older, which I am, because I can’t stand the sound of this digital crap. What happened to having a real voice? A tickle of digital sound from time to time can sound cool but when the basis of your career is surrounded by what a computer can do to make you sound better, it’s over! Ke$ha is a prime example of how technology has broken our ear drums and has convinced us that she rocks. Have you seen this woman live? Ke$ha (pronounced KEH-SHA, not KEE-SHA) sounds like a drunk woman about to pass out singing karaoke at some empty bar in between snorting lines of cocaine. But here we are and her song is in the top ten on iTunes. We are teaching people that it’s okay to suck because there is a machine that makes it all better. I beg you to listen to the vocals, not the catchy lyrics, the vocals. Take a moment and imagine a real singer doing the same song, it would sound amazing.

All in all it’s all about who you know and who you are sleeping with and I guess I’m sleeping with the wrong people. Maybe I should sing more like a drunk and have my eyes half closed while I’m suck-rapping to get your attention. Enough is enough. Make me famous!

p.s. Please don’t make me sleep with Ke$ha! She looks like Mr. Ed and I don’t know where those teeth have been!

Be your own judge! Listen here: Ke$ha Your Love Is My Drug

Watch video here

Working on more music. More everything. Finding this summer to be my magical inspiration summer.

Have you been reading Entertainment Weekly’s articles lately? They have become more about gossip than about actual reviews on music, movies, etc. I have posted my own comments on individual articles but it has come to my attention that this magazine has turned into garbage. But I suppose Hollywood will do that to you. Now of course this is not just about Entertainment Weekly, this is about these little stories about Gaga isn’t original or Christina is copying Lady Gaga and so on.

M.I.A. vs. Gaga.

This is a bunch of bull because the two artists have nothing in common musically and yet M.I.A. is calling Lady Gaga a mimic of Madonna, Grace Jones, Bowie, and of herself. Now if you were as old as the Earth, for argument’s sake, you would clearly recognize that there have been dozens of mimics throughout history. Madonna is not the first to do anything, Grace Jones isn’t the first weird performance artist, and so on. The expression is, “it’s all been done.” All songs sound the same, all notes have been played, all stories have been told. What is different and fascinating as we evolve as artists and human beings is the retelling of that same old story and the reinvention of the same song and dance. If you seek originality you are going to have to leave because we are all pretty monotonous on planet Earth. In short M.I.A. there is nothing new about you and your little bubble you live in.

Grace Jones Vs. Lady Gaga

This story annoys me to no end. In essence Grace Jones claims that it “pisses” her off that Lady Gaga is copying her style or whatever. Let me tell you something Grace Jones being weird and artistic has been done over a thousand and one ways. You are no doubt an amazing performance artist, but you and Lady Gaga are two different breeds. Gaga may be inspired by your looks but I know that all of those outfits you’ve worn throughout the years were inspired by someone or something as well. You, Grace Jones, are not original but I appreciate your weirdness because quite frankly you are super creepy and it’s growing on me. See her video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMn2OJmx3w

Christina Aguilera Copies Gaga and Madonna

Who's copying who? I can't tell! SARCASM!

Apparently you all have forgotten that Christina Aguilera does not need computers to enhance her voice. She does not need little monsters. And she does not need to be accused of being irrelevant. Her voice will stand the test of time and her vocal ability is much more vast than Lady Gaga’s and Madonna’s combined. The thing that really ticks me off is that if any woman or man wants to be provocative you are instantly compared to Lady Gaga. What the hell? If you read this blog, you know I would die for Gaga, but seriously? The world did exist before Stefani Germanotta found her Gaga. And now that Christina is back she’s accused of being like Lady Gaga. I don’t know if you know this but Gaga and Madonna were not the first women to don a dominatrix’s outfit or the first to experiment with one’s sexuality, again it’s all been done before. Appreciate the voice that is Christina, apparently you forgot that once upon a time she ruled the land. I will not deny that Xtina is paying homage to Madonna’s Express Yourself music video, but again that hair do was worn before Madonna and that style is circa Great Depression, not circa Madonna. Oh and did you know that dominatrix’s have been around for years? Check out a picture from the 1920s, now who is copying who?

She must have saw Lady Gaga when Gaga was time traveling...

Christina Aguilera’s I’m Not Myself Tonight Music Video

The Stupid Articles That Drove ME to this post are below:

Lady Gaga vs. M.I.A.
Lady Gaga vs. Grace Jones
Christina Aguilera Is Trying To Be Gaga.

So this year so far I have not made any other videos other than this one at work. We had a crazy man customer in and well, you’ll see after you watch this video. This is a rare video of me completely losing it. I had no idea I had every laugh known to man stuck inside of me. I’m telling you this crazy man was bat-shit crazy. He is sure to influence many a video in the future. Watch it:

In other news I’ve been doing a lot of cartoon drawings which started with Lady Gaga. Now I’ve done one of my boyfriend and one of my friend Monica. I think they look pretty cool. I’m still an amateur, because I draw that on a computer and not on paper. I’d say about six months ago I could not have done these kinds of graphic drawings at all! I have to say that by the time I got to work on Monica(which is my newest piece) I think I’ve found my niche. Check it out:

I made a lot of goals for myself this year but I’m pretty excited for the unexpected things I’ve done that were not on the list. But I still want to write and produce a follow up to my Google Me song. I will start that next Tuesday.

Until then Bitches!

Anytime I’m pissed off about the ignorance that so many people display I watch this video or listen to the mp3 version. I’m aware that the original is the best, but for me, these added verses fit life as it is today:
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Imagine
By John Lennon (additional lyrics by Lady Gaga)
Performed by Lady Gaga

Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
And only Matthew in the sky*
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday that you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

People of the nation
Are you listening
It isn’t equal if it’s sometimes
I want a real democracy
Imagine all the people
Could love equally

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people
Sharing in the world
With nothing to hate
And nothing to think
Just people to love
And friends to have drinks

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
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Letting go of hate is so hard for me, but I’m letting go and giving it back to this song! “Imagine all the people living in peace.” I think John Lennon would be so proud to know that his song and his message still live on today.

I really want to be and think more like this song. So I renounce all my hate on people and I will just agree to disagree. And, yes, readers, that does include Perez Hilton, too. It takes more energy to hate than any other emotion I know.

As you may have noticed I must be in this mood for some reason and this is all I have to say about it.

Today something was told to me, which I’ve decided to keep to myself, but let it be known that I’m not particularly impressed with anyone who laughs at love. It’s simply wrong. I despise having to be a bigger person and let this go. The old me would very much like to get into a huge argument or an all out brawl. However I realize that would hurt a lot more people and make me just as ignorant.

Sometimes ignorance is a wicked thing and I do not understand how people can be the way they are, but I’m sure that they laughed because they are blind. They cannot look beyond their own prejudices and skewed views on what they think love is. Most people at least have enough respect to hold their composure and keep their rude responses to themselves, but to each their own. All I have to say to all that is:

“Imagine all the people could love equally.”

*Who is Matthew? Please click here be educated: Matthew Shepard

For the last two months I’ve been having issues walking in and out of stores because I thought my new phone was setting the alarms off.

Yesterday, Danny and I went to the mall. Our first stop was Barnes & Noble Bookstore. When we walked through the door I set the alarm off. Immediately,without looking around, I feel embarrassed. I imagine massive amounts of people looking at me and pointing, “He stole something!” I then ask you how can I steal something if I haven’t even walked through your door yet? I just shrugged and say quietly to anyone who may or may not care, which no one does care, “…It’s my new phone. It sets off alarms.”

So we look around and we go towards the media area. Here I will have to walk through another alarm and set it off, yet it again. I walk through and suddenly, “Beep!!!”

The lady putting cds away says, “Hi there.” And I pretend that it was nothing.

Danny and I look around some more and I see some movies I’ve been dying to buy from now until the rest of my life. Basquiat with David Bowie as Andy Warhol. Huge fan of the YouTube clips of this movie! Want this movie. Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, of all the Disney movies, I’ve never owned this one.

Out we walk from the media area and guess what happens on my way out? BEEP! BEEP!

A thousand people, I feel, are now looking and pointing at me thinking I stole something! “You over there! I don’t believe that your phone has set off the alarm! Pull your pants down and lets see what you are hiding!” I swear to God! It sucks, in this particular situation, to be the center of attention!

So quite, manically, I say to the lady, “I think my phone keeps setting off these alarms can I try and figure out for sure what it is?”

She doesn’t seem to mind. So I walk my coat through and no beeps. Then I have Danny walk my phone through. No beeps.

“It’s okay,” she says. “You don’t need to take your clothes off.”

By this point I do indeed have a rather small audience watching me. At this point I really could care less. I proceed to think, “maybe it’s my belt, that’s metal.” I wave it through and there are no beeps!

I walk through and I of course beep. Please somebody please deactivate me, so that I can shop like a normal person again! Sure I’m making a huge ass of myself, but you know, when you set off every alarm in every store you shop at for two months, you start to wonder!

The nice lady says, “Sometimes it’s your wallet. They put those tags in your wallet and sometimes they forget to deactivate them.” She looks a little less worried now that I’ve retrieved my coat covered in Twilight memorabilia buttons, my belt now back around my waist and my scarf back around my neck.

I take my wallet and give it to Danny and he walks through and the alarm goes off. We tell her thank you and proceed towards the exit into the food court. Boy, do I ever need some comfort food, for two reasons: I’m hungry and I just made a huge ass of myself. As we walk out of Barnes & Noble I set off the other alarm. BEEP! The army awaits to arrest me in the food court for stealing the invisible book from Barnes & Noble Bookstore!

Well! Today I emptied out my wallet and all of it’s contents and I did not find anything attached to my wallet. I did find a little magnetic strip that attaches to sunglasses at your local Target. That cute square thing that is almost impossible to take off your sunglasses, because it’s so damn sticky? Yes that thing! That little thing that measures 1.5 sq inches… THAT LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT? Yes! That’s what has been setting off the alarms! It got stuck to the back of my debit card and has been wreaking havoc for the last two months! Well no more!

Such a small thing. To cause such big drama in my life!

These sunglasses have caused so many problems! But I still love them!

How does one become famous? That is the question that stirs through a lot of our minds at one time or another. But when we don’t accomplish this, it’s time to: “grow up.” Well I’m never going to grow up because I want to be famous just as much as the next person. And I don’t care if it takes until I’m 90 years old to be famous.

We talk about fame and being famous a lot in our culture today, but what is the definition of fame or famous. Let’s look it up, shall we… The dictionary’s definition of famous: to be “widely known.” That’s it?

A lot of us want nothing more than to be widely known by the world. This road, as we’ve seen on countless VH1 and BIOGRAPHY specials, is hard and almost impossible dream. Time and time again, we do, however, discover a new person that everyone is talking about and then, like or not, they are quickly becoming famous! Jealous? Always!

I, myself, admit that I really don’t know anyone as caught up in fame as I am. You may say that I’m a dreamer (pun intended) but it’s really the constant dream that keeps me alive above anything else. I know I’m sick with fame and I don’t care and sometimes I get so frustrated. Sometimes I think, “Joey! What do you have to offer that isn’t already out there?” It’s a depressing thought, but I know as cliche as it sounds, there’s no one else like me.

I have me to offer and that’s different than everyone else out there. Everyone has the same ideas, but it’s all in how you execute the idea to your audience. I’ve been sitting around trying to find the right idea and how to execute an idea in a way that hasn’t been done before. Unfortunately, I’m always close, but no cigar. Well fuck the cigars, I’ll find a way to get there, it’s just how!

JOEY BROYLES. STATUS: UNFAMOUS!

People who are famous are no different than you or I, the only difference is they are widely known. Well, shit, if that’s all they have on you, then everyone can be famous. But I’m not interested in just becoming famous, I’m in it for the long haul, like Madonna. Now there is a woman who is famous and who has staying power! She is just as potent as the first day she was all of a sudden famous. If anyone wants to know how to be famous go ask her!

Here are a few things I do know about those who are famous and stay famous.

Evolution.

People say when an artist or an actor changes they have: “sold out.” Well let me ask you how long will you be interested in someone who acts in the same type of movie over and over? I don’t know the difference between Miss Congeniality and The Proposal, and I doubt Sandra Bullock does either? If you are a musical artist/group like: The Fray, for instance. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of hearing different renditions of How To Save A Life! You either switch it up or you are left behind.

Madonna:Evolution

People that have staying power in Hollywood are very aware of their surroundings. They know what’s in and out. They read or are debriefed about what’s going on in the world and in the immediate Hollywood world. As much as possible they try everything to please a vast majority of their fans and the general public. But of course someone always loses in this race. Adoption is okay when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt do it, but when Madonna does it, she’s ridiculed. So, like I said, you don’t always win.

Brad Pitt is very aware!

Being: Innovative and Provocative.

Now here is a tricky one, but if you do it right, my oh my, the power you will possess. Someone fresh who comes on the scene and is daring! Wearing outfits or performing with extreme theatricality can open some major doors. Take Lady GaGa, for instance, we haven’t seen someone like her in a long while. You might not like her, but she’s on the right track to having lots of staying power.

Innovative is such a small word for someone as amazing as Lady GaGa.

Making people think about anything that no one wants to talk about will get you a lot of points in the fame department. Collectively, people may not agree with your point of view, but know for certain, you are making some headway. As you know I despise Perez Hilton, but he no doubt is provoking thoughts, mostly bad, but nonetheless, look where he started. DAMN HIM! Ha! Ha!

These are just a few of the elements I have witnessed from afar watching my favorite and least favorite celebrities rise to the top throughout my life. Hopefully one day I can be famous and sell everyone a copy of my tell all book, “How To Become Famous.” Until then I’m just Joey Broyles.

I don’t even care words do not describe her crazy hotness! I love this girl because she ain’t pushing the envelope, she burned the envelope and she doesn’t care! Fucking look at her:

Lady GaGa and Kermit The Frog!

Whatever it is! HUGE!

This is my favorite outfit of the night! So fucking great!

Yay GaGa! Nay Perez!

I'd wear this one, it's shiny!

She was working hard wearing different outfits all night long, shit!

And what a performance by the way! Watch it below: