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A vanity label ( see related topic on vanity press ) is an informal name given sometimes to a record label founded as a wholly or partially owned subsidiary of another, larger and better established ( at least at the time of the vanity label's founding ) record label, where the subsidiary label is ( at least nominally ) controlled by a successful recording artist, designed to allow this artist to release music by other artists he or she admires.
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It was both the final album owed to RCA under the band's existing contract and the inaugural release on the band's Grunt Records vanity label.
Starting in 1975, Kraftwerk released its records on the vanity label Kling Klang Schallplatten.
" Thereupon she reportedly started shopping for a new record deal under Knockout Entertainment, her brother's vanity label.
It is considered an example of a vanity label, where an artist is able to run a label, with some degree of independence, from within a larger parent company, Interscope in this case.
While " Testify " made something of a local buzz, due to T-Neck being a vanity label, they weren't able to send it to record labels.
While Mercury showed no interest at first, they eventually allowed the band to start their own vanity label.
One DJ, Jesse Saunders, ran a vanity record label through which he released original dance music productions which emulated various popular styles of the day.
* Posthuman Records, a vanity label through which Marilyn Manson produced industrial rock band Godhead
In 2007, the band signed with Warner Bros. Records and began releasing music through their own vanity label, Born & Bred.
Their self-produced, self-released 2001 EP Demonstration brought them to the attention of legendary producer T Bone Burnett, who used his vanity label DMZ to secure them a contract with Sony BMG Music Entertainment and produced their debut album, Future Perfect, which was released in October 2004 to general critical praise.
The parent label handles the production and distribution and funding of the vanity label, but the album is usually released with the vanity label brand name prominent.
vanity and see
In late 1942, in an attempt to limit Dönitz's power and cut down his " vanity ", Raeder took away responsibility for training U-boat crews from Dönitz, only to see Dönitz ignore his orders.
Fanny's vanity nearly prevents her from venturing down her home's grand staircase to see Job.
According to Chuck Lorre's eleventh vanity card ( see below ), he and Dottie Dartland originally conceived Dharma & Greg as " a series revolving around a woman whose personality is not a neurotic product of societal and parental conditioning, but of her own free-flowing, compassionate mind ".
He has surprisingly little of the vanity that goads most performers ; he does not want audiences to pay, he says, " only to see me jump.
A key aspect of the character of Brent is his obliviousness to how other people actually see him, causing him to lash out whenever the veil of ignorance and vanity he maintains is pierced.
His arrogance and vanity bring him to believe that rather than being merely a reporter of news, he " is the news ", and therefore anything he doesn't see ( such as purposely covering his eye when it is revealed the Phantom was being framed ) is not the news.
vanity and related
The related term vainglory is now often seen as an archaic synonym for vanity, but originally meant boasting in vain, i. e. unjustified boasting ; although glory is now seen as having an exclusively positive meaning, the Latin term gloria ( from which it derives ) roughly means boasting, and was often used as a negative criticism.
Approbativeness is closely related to Self-esteem, but is clearly different: where Self-esteem stands for pride, Approbativeness stands for vanity.
vanity and topic
Reviewers have called this a " cautionary tale about selfishness and vanity " and a reminder that " sharing brings happiness and acceptance ," but the moral of the book has become a hotly debated topic.
vanity and on
when, on the journey to London that immediately follows, he pauses nostalgically to lay his hand upon the finger-post at the end of the village, the wooden pointer symbolically designates a spiritual frontier between innocence and the corruption of worldly vanity.
The idea of signing the worker's name and birth date on the brick and the place where it was made was not new to the Ming era and had little or nothing to do with vanity.
Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.
Otherwise a later writer may have taken up a comment on life that had been made by Solomon, ‘ Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ,’ and used this as a text to show why even a wise and wealthy king should say such a thing.
In Castellio's Treatise on Heretics ( 1554 ), he argued for a focus on Christ's moral teachings in place of the vanity of theology, and he afterward developed a theory of tolerance based on biblical principles.
In Discourse on the Arts and Sciences Rousseau argues that the arts and sciences have not been beneficial to humankind, because they arose not from authentic human needs but rather as a result of pride and vanity.
Even Julian's intellectual friends and fellow pagans were of a divided mind about this habit of talking to his subjects on an equal footing: Ammianus Marcellinus saw in that only the foolish vanity of someone " excessively anxious for empty distinction ", whose " desire for popularity often led him to converse with unworthy persons ".
Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of the novel and remarked on Dunst's performance, " The perfect contrast to take-charge Jo comes from Kirsten Dunst's scene-stealing Amy, whose vanity and twinkling mischief make so much more sense coming from an 11-year-old vixen than they did from grown-up Joan Bennett in 1933.
This Book's emphasis on the ephemeralness of life (" Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ...") echoes the theme of the sukkah, while its emphasis on death reflects the time of year in which Sukkot occurs ( the " autumn " of life ).
Also significant is that on the first night of the battle, Shiver is unexpectedly slain in a Dream Duel with the Avatara Rabican, a victory owed to the advice of the Head ( who alerted them to Shiver's exaggerated sense vanity, which was exploited by Rabican ).
According to Byzantine chronicles, on his abdication he achieved some degree of anecdotal fame by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ' during Justinian's triumph in Contstantinople .< ref > Edward Gibbon,
Elizabeth ’ s vanity and the attention paid to her personal appearance also had indelible ramifications on Court life.
The bridge, arching over the road, spanned the distance between the lower gardens of Achilleion and the nearby beach ; its remains, a monument to imperial vanity as well as impracticality, are an important landmark on the highway.
This conversion, which took place in 1374, appears to have been due partly to the effects of a dangerous illness and partly to the influence of Henry de Calcar, the learned and pious prior of the Carthusian monastery at Munnikhuizen ( Monnikenhuizen ) near Arnhem, who had remonstrated with him on the vanity of his life.
During the Renaissance, vanity was invariably represented as a naked woman, sometimes seated or reclining on a couch.
The 5th-century poet Telestes doubted that virginal Athena could have been motivated by such vanity, but in the 2nd century AD, on the Acropolis of Athens itself, the voyager Pausanias saw " a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenos for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.
During the Civil War, Custer was frequently termed " The Boy General " in the press, reflecting his promotion to brigadier general at the age of 23 ; during his years on the Plains in the Indian Wars, his troopers often referred to him with grudging admiration as " Iron Butt " and " Hard Ass " for his physical stamina in the saddle and his strict discipline, as well as with the more derisive " Ringlets " for his vanity about his appearance in general and his long, curling blond hair in particular.
Nan returns to the car and sees the hitchhiker sitting in the back seat through the reflection of the vanity mirror on the visor.
The various reasons include: faster healing and easier cleaning of road rash, less pain during leg massage, aesthetics, vanity – by more clearly displaying leg muscles – fitting in with cycling peers, " feeling faster " without the feel of wind on body hair so less drag, a sense that Lycra cycling shorts " stick " to the skin better with shaved legs, and a sense that the absence of leg hair assists in preventing ingrown hairs in the upper thighs from tight-fitting Lycra shorts.
vanity and press
" Máj " was rejected by publishers, and was published by a vanity press at Mácha's own expense, not long before his early death.
* Atlanta Nights: a hoax, by a group of professional authors, perpetrated upon a vanity press
A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges fees from artists in order to show their work, much like a vanity press does for authors.
The publisher may act like a traditional publisher, by soliciting sample works and deciding which ones to support, or it may only serve as an escrow agent and not care about the quality of the works ( like a vanity press ).
Often this type of book is published in the vanity press, which means that the author is paying to have the book published.
Kilodney has mentioned that while most writers are inspired by conventionally great literature, he drew inspiration from the exact opposite: the slush pile, the crank letter, and of course the vanity press.
A vanity press or vanity publisher is a term describing a publishing house in which authors pay to have their books published.
Because vanity presses are not selective, publication by a vanity press is typically not seen as conferring the same recognition or prestige as commercial publication.
The term " vanity press " is sometimes considered pejorative, and is often used to imply that an author who self-publishes using such a service is only publishing out of vanity, and that his or her work could not be commercially successful.
In other words, a work published by a vanity press is typically assumed to be unpublishable elsewhere or not publishable on a timely basis.
A slightly more sophisticated model of a vanity press is described by Umberto Eco in Foucault's Pendulum.
They are politely rejected and then referred to another publishing firm in the same office – the vanity press that will print anything for money.
According to self-publisher and poet Peter Finch, vanity presses charge higher premiums and create a risk that an author who has published with a vanity press will have more difficulty working with a respectable publisher in the future.
When libraries accept the products of a vanity press, they may require the donor to sign a form giving to the library the right to do what it pleases with the items, including disposing of them or redonating them.
The vanity press model has been extended to other media.
These variants on the vanity press theme are still much less common than the traditional, book-based vanity press.
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