September 10, 2001

4:23 PM

Carson Daly signs record deal.The VJ is getting his own record label in a deal with Sony. "I get so many tapes from great musicians," said Daly at the MTV Video Music Awards. "I usually give them away to friends, and then they become huge." Yeah, just what the music industry needs, the Daly Recording Corp.
posted by BarneyFifesBullet (15 comments total)

kill me, kill me now
posted by mabelcolby at 4:26 PM on September 10, 2001

doesn't he have enough to do with all the latest boy bands and X'ed out teenagers screaming around him all the time. poor, poor carson...it's just work work work!!!!!
posted by bas67 at 4:41 PM on September 10, 2001

I like Carson Daly. He was great in Josie and the Pussiecats.
posted by rathikd at 4:50 PM on September 10, 2001

I'm scared this label will put out music I enjoy and buy. My indie cred will drop dramatically.
posted by noisemartyr at 5:01 PM on September 10, 2001

just because he's the host of TRL doesn't mean he loves the music they play... i think i remember him in an interview talking about how he had to change his whole image on mtv.. he said something like, "no more dead kennedy t-shirts"
posted by lotsofno at 5:25 PM on September 10, 2001

If Carson Daly is a Dead Kennedys fan, I'm Kurt Loder.

Carson diggin' DK?That's a funny picture.

I doubt they care about Daly's tastes anyway, it's his access to the teen demo that makes them think he can pick acts for a label.
posted by BarneyFifesBullet at 5:35 PM on September 10, 2001

noisemartyr: Do you really think a band that you would like would send their demo to the host of TRL?
posted by Espoo2 at 6:35 PM on September 10, 2001

Depending on how the cards fell Carson could have been a talking head for TNN, an actor, a waiter, etc. I don't think it really matters to MTV if you know the first thing about top 40. What matters is how well you can sell the goods. Just like the home shopping network.
posted by skallas at 7:16 PM on September 10, 2001

Oddly enough, before his MTV gig, Daly was a DJ for an alternative station in San Francisco and then for KROQ in LA. I'm pretty sure he knows who the Dead Kennedy's are. It just makes him more of a sellout.
posted by eyeballkid at 7:36 PM on September 10, 2001

The larger question is, how is it that a scuttly little trilobite like Daly gets anything besides multiple daily beatings? Is there NO justice in this world?
posted by UncleFes at 9:17 PM on September 10, 2001

in regards to what eyeballkid said: i read an article in Spin magazine and also heard a popular band comment on his "wildman drinking" ways and that during the mtv summer house he was sloshed pretty often and one day they had to carry him off the set. i think the word they used for him was lush. i also know that he is friends w/the group smash mouth and grew up w/them or lived in the same area and played guitar or something or other in that band. isn't he taking over the late late slot from craig kilborn? i hate that arrogant asshole craig kilborn. where is craig going if carson is taking over? i thought i heard kilborn talking about it when he was recently a guest on the letterman show but i tuned it at the end of the interview and changed the channel after being annoyed 30 seconds into the kilborn interview.
posted by suprfli at 9:57 PM on September 10, 2001

Daly is taking over the "Later" show in January which airs after Conan on most NBC stations.

For me to poop on!

Sorry, couldn't resist....
posted by BarneyFifesBullet at 10:01 PM on September 10, 2001

Um, pardon my ignorance, but other than being the host of TRL (which I already know Is Bad), why does everyone hate this guy? Or is this just guilt by association?
posted by kevspace at 10:28 PM on September 10, 2001

"Hi, I'm Carson Daly and I'm totally average in everyway." Maybe he is smarter than we are? Maybe we should all work for MTV, Urban Outfitters, and Starbucks...Man, that sounds expensive...
posted by nakedjon at 11:03 PM on September 10, 2001

Maybe that dead look in his eyes reflects his own guilt from selling out.

When I think of the word 'Tool' my mind instantly jumps to Carson Daly.
posted by ttrendel at 11:54 PM on September 10, 2001