grouphug.us claims Madonna swiped its confession podcast idea to promote her new album, Confessions on a Dance Floor. Asks its surfers to call Madonna's confessions hotline and remind her "where to find the original confession show"
Madonna's new album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, due next week, will include a sampling of well-known beats and rhythms. But operators of the group hug site claim the famous singer also sampled their original idea, without permission and without even giving them credit for it.
group hug lets people confess anonymously. Then, the text confessions are posted on the site, and the voice confessions, recorded through a dedicated hotline, are used in the site's podcast, Audiocrush.
The group hug operators found out that in preparing to launch Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna recently opened a toll-free confessions hotline, which records, then podcasts the confessions.
"Madonna ripped us off", the operators wrote in a message posted on their site. "So, the queen of pop ripped us off, and probably not for the first time. Frankly, we’re tired of it. You can see on her web site that her people set up a confession hotline and corresponding podcast. What the fuck, Madonna? Where’s the love?"
Aidan Fox-Holden, one of the operators, asked in a a discussion thread on the topic: "anyone know a lawyer with a sense of humor and some spare time who wants to help us sue madonna? how sweet would that be?"
The site asked its users to "call the line and remind Madonna where to find the original confession show". Fox-Holden was blunter: "call her little confession line and let her know what a bunch of wack bullshit it is and how audiocrush will totally melt her face. you've got nothing to lose: the call's toll free, and i feel that this fatuous, kabbalah-felching dorksqueeze oughta know what's what".
