Imagine the horror faced by Louisiana indie band Bones. One day, singer Michael Miller went to his band's MySpace page and found . . . the face of actor David Boreanaz! There were no more bad bluesy riffs pIaying in the background, no more pictures of white dudes in black ties. All 2100 of Bones' friends were gone! Instead, all he could see was the pasty face of Angel Seely Booth from Prime Suspect Fox TV show Bones. Oooooh, spooky! I get the willies just looking at that neckerchief.
Apparently MySpace overlord NewsCorp had waved its bejeweled fists and decreed that Fox shows could simply take over whatever pages they liked on MySpace – even if those pages had been occupied for two years by someone else. It's good to be the king. I guess Bones the band has more fans than Bones the TV show, because a huge uproar ensued. It was even bigger than that time the fans of Forever Knight did a letter-writing campaign to save their favorite show about a Candian vampire police detective. Eventually MySpace founder Tom Anderson gave the page back to Miller and Co., apologizing for the misunderstanding.
The freaked-out band took some time to process the trauma with music industry rag FMQB:
As one commenter on Whedonesque put it, "Wow, that must have been scary."
We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
I just wonder what's going to happen to poor, 15-year-old Roxy, who owns myspace.com/cops? Whatcha gonna do when Fox comes for you? Hope you have lots of friends.
