"WWW.Dot.Com (New Wave Version)" genre: New Wave
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	Mistress Jen's campy new wave song about the perils of Dotcom companies.
	CD: Naked Organ   Label: Independent Credits: Music & Lyrics by Mistress Jen © 2002 SOCAN, Recorded by Harold Futrell-Fruhling, Beats, Back-up keyboard, and Mixing by Peter Hudson, Mastered by Greg Corcoran, Produced by Chris Houston
	Story Behind the Song In the summer of 2000, I worked for a Dotcom company for about 3 months. I loved the people I worked with, but unfortunately, the company went out of business. It was overvalued on the stock market by a shady broker. We were unable to concentrate on the business that we really cared about because we had to do so many costly, bullshit initiatives to make the investors happy. We also had computer bugs with our website that may have cost us a lot of money. It was a lot of pressure trying to live up to our stock value, and the stock plummeted. I liked the job at first because I had a good wage and very few actual job duties other than answering the phone and making us sound like a big company and fielding calls from angry investors. I had my own cell phone as well. A friend and vendor once complained that, "Dotcom companies always think they can get everything for free." which was true because a lot of supplies and products we obtained were via favours from friends and connections. If it wasn"t for the public company thing and us acquiring another company just to impress the investors (which fell through because of public relations nightmares), it might have actually been viable for another year or two. Did I mention that a company with a similar name launched a trademark lawsuit against us? It was like everything that could have gone wrong did. When I was laid off, I decided to write a song about the whole thing since many other dotcom companies had gone through the same experience. Everyone thought that internet would really take off, but it didn't. It's just like catalogue shopping or the Home Shopping Network, which hasn't replaced brick & mortar store shopping. People usually want to touch things before they buy them. I chose a new wave style keyboard part because it captured the frantic, computer techno, caffeine-addicted, internet-geek/ yuppie essence of the experience. Peter played around with the beat machine and added some other keyboards so it sounded kind of like a bubble-gum 80"s dance song. I liked it so much, I put that version on my album, Naked Organ, as well as the straight keyboard & voice version. Lyrics I"m starting up an internet company Won"t you invest in me Next year I’m gonna make you 20 million No, seriously I gotta business model that"s so innovative It"s already being copied Gonna spend a lot on a really wicked site and then Get all my products for free WWW Dot Com I started up an internet company Won"t you come work for me There"s a lot of stress and damage control But you"ll get a big salary Come on and hustle everyone you know Use all your connections for me Whatever you do, don"t spend a dime, we"re gonna Get everything for free I started up an internet company Won"t you distribute through me Only one percent of products sell online, so you"ll have to give them to me for free The orders haven"t started coming in yet We"ll just have to wait and see And I just found a bug in our shopping cart So you"ll have to be patient with me Yeah our stock price just took another dive so you"ll have to be patient with me I"ve got a floundering internet company Won"t you please buy it from me I"m under lots of pressure and I need somebody to make all the decisions for me Money"s running low, it"s almost gone "cuz I can"t get anything for free I can"t afford to pay back anyone I owe "cuz I just bought another company

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