I Bet You Think This Lawsuit’s About You…
Carly Simon has filed suit against caffeine empire Starbucks after being given her walking papers by the company’s music outpost- hold the papers.
Simon alleges that she was given no word when Hear Music, Starbucks’ record label, pulled their support for the singer’s upcoming album just days before it was scheduled to be released. As a result, 2008’s This Kind of Love came out to more anemic sales than anticipated. Chances are, as you were ordering your grande macchiato at some point in April of last year, you should’ve seen Simon’s album somewhere near the register, as you have for releases by Joni Mitchell or Paul McCartney.
But you probably didn’t. Hear Music was scaled back and eventually eliminated by the company. The marketing behind her album all but vanished, and This Kind of Love was not to be found beside the registers, right between the 40% post consumer napkins and gargantuan green straws. Despite the fact that Starbucks wasn’t the only place to find the album, Simon alleges that scant nationwide distribution on their part sabotaged the release, saying that “you can’t sell a product that isn’t in stores.”
The singer’s currently going through her fair share of financial woes; as stated in The Guardian, she’s trying to sell her New York apartment, while already owing money on a house in Martha’s Vineyard. The money troubles have forced her to come out of retirement and write another record to bring in some revenue. Titled Never Been Gone, if her suit with the coffee conglomerate fails to award any damages, she may want to title the eventual follow up as “Not Going Anywhere.”
Worse comes to worse, she can always auction off the secret to who’s really “So Vain…” again.
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