Hey guys,

"The Way It's Meant To Be" will be added to Fuse, a music video network, tomorrow, Monday, August 9th. Please check your local listings for exact channel (in Nashville it's Channel 132 on Comcast Digital Cable). The video should play an estimated 13-15 times a week, hopefully more soon.

Please check out their website for more info on the network (there's already a page for the band and a place to post messages): Fuse Website

I'm going to check and see if there's a place to request videos. If anybody finds the page before I do, please post here.

Thanks...

UPDATE: Apparently the video will air on a show called Oven Fresh which comes on at 4 PM EST Monday through Friday. You can vote at the Oven Fresh page on Fuse.TV... if the video gets enough votes it'll continue to air on Fuse beyond this week. I just checked and the video is not listed yet, but I'm assuming it will by show air time Monday afternoon. So please tune in if you can on Monday and then head to the Fuse website, look up Oven Fresh, and vote away!

(Edited by BrianW at 10:06 pm on Aug. 8, 2004)

current website standings:

1. Won-G -Rapture
2. Senses Fail -Buried A Lie
3. Papa Roach -Getting Away With Murder
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs -Y Control
5. The Features -The Way It's Meant To Be
6. Lloyd Banks -I'm So Fly
7. LL Cool J -Headsprung

current mobile standings:
1. Papa Roach -Getting Away With Murder
2. Senses Fail -Buried A Lie
3. The Features -The Way It's Meant To Be
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs -Y Control
5. LL Cool J -Headsprung
6. Lloyd Banks -I'm So Fly
7. Won-G -Rapture

At least they're beating LL Cool J...

I just signed up (they claim not to send spam) and voted to "keep it". I also cheated and said to "lose it" for all the other videos. When I voted for the features, it said that 24% want to keep it, but Papa Roach and Senses Fail each had about 40%. Won-G is blowing away the competition with 75%. Must be the hot chicks in the video. Stupid hip-hop.

The Features are last right now with 24% saying "keep it".

well it was a low-budget video right ?

Million Ways could be considerd low-budget as well... the fact is, that more people that watch Fuse like Papa Roach and bands of that ilk... it has nothing to do with the video price tag, just the bands familiarity, and dare I say, hot chicks.

The fact that this song and video has gotten the airplay that it has is a testament to the band and the strength of their songs, (and let's not forget the strength of the marketing team pushing the video to every venue it can)

Well said, man. I wasn't trying to be negative. I guess I was just trying to motivate people to vote. I agree that the fact that it's getting played at all is awesome. The fact that it's losing is, unfortunately, not surprising.

It does concern me, however, that it's not a matter of people choosing one video over another, but simply giving it a thumbs up or thumbs down. But that will be a lesson we'll all have to learn: Not everyone will love The Features. I mean, look at how much we all tear down popular music-- especially if we know bands that we deem nore "deserving" of success. I'm sure there were tons of fans that loved Nickelback (for example) "back in the day" that were all of a sudden faced with a huge backlash of hate against their boys when they hit it big. of course, they deserved it for liking Nickelback.

Either way, I think more and more people are falling in love with this band everyday.

(Edited by carligula at 10:48 am on Aug. 11, 2004)

Or the band could just put some hot chicks in the next video. Carl in drag would be too hott for many to handle. I'd give that a thumbs-up in a second.

I will gladly bare my enormous areolas for the Features.

Well they'll have to find someone else to shoot that day then...