I am bummed about the results of today’s Massachusetts election, but, ya know, I like our whole democracy thing and so I will respect its results. But my former writer Wendie pointed out that this newly elected Scott Brown — the guy that destroyed the dem’s super-majority in the Senate and possibly derailed Obama’s plans for the rest of his term — is the father of one Ayla Brown, a former American Idol contestant.
Months after she was booted from Idol, Ayla released an album, and a single from that album came to my attention. I wrote this piece about it, just generally mocking the whole damn endeavor. Back then, Evil Beet was a relatively small blog. I can’t remember our exact numbers, but I’d guess it was somewhere around … oh … 500 readers a day?
Her father sent me an email. I didn’t reprint it back then, and I don’t remember why. This is what he said:
From: ”Brown, Scott \(SEN\)” <Scott.P.Brown@state.ma.us>
To: <theevilt@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 16:37:42 -0500
Subject: AylaEvil: Read your review of Ayla’s CD. It would be nice to listen to the whole thing before making a judgment. It has been getting great reviews. The sales have been low, but distribution with the 15000 that Walmart purchased got delayed. The I-tunes sales and indy sales have been very positive. We were very pleased with the results, especially because she did it in 6 days. That’s all. This is Ayla’s dad. Privileged? My wife wife and I have 4 jobs. We call it hard work. Scott Brown
So, you know, whatever. He wasn’t especially rude, nor was he especially helpful. He was just emailing the first two-bit blogger who so much as mentioned his daughter’s name.
I emailed a lawyer friend of mine, like, “Do I need to be nice to this douchebag since he holds political office?” My friend was like, “Nah, dude, he’s a state senator, that’s like a joke position.”
And now. And now ….
The world, it changes, in strange and beautiful and tragical ways. I love that about the world.
