Below is an official statement from Donnie Klang regarding a story posted on a website that is known to be completely unreliable. More on that in a second. Here's the statement:
"A popular website posted a completely fabricated story about me yesterday, and now it's circulating around the internet. It is important for me to speak to my fans and let them know that the story is 100% fiction. It's completely made up! I love all my fans and all people of various racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. I would never, in any way, say anything racially derogatory. In addition, I love my Bad Boy family and have nothing but love for the entire label and staff. Don't believe the lies! The story is absolutely false."
It's a shame that he has to acknowledge it at all. If you just read Bad Boy Blog, you may be asking "what rumor?" This is because I didn't report it. It wasn't that I didn't see it. I did. But, it was because I read it and immediately, it was fairly clear it was made up. It read like it was right out of the anti-Diddy puppet manual. You have to consider the source. The site that it came from is a site that just creates stories without any basis in reality. They do not fact check anything. People want to read made up, juicy gossip and they deliver. Let me explain how it works.
Websites like this one and that one make money through advertising. The way that you generate income, usually, from website advertising is impressions (when you view a page) and clicks (when you click on the ad). If you write juicy, sensational nonsense, it can lead to you getting a lot of traffic, which means a lot of ad money, which means a lot of profit. This is why they do it. The site is making a mint, monetizing lies. Meanwhile, here at BBB, we receive 1/1,000,000th of their traffic, probably, and make very little, as such. But, I wouldn't have it any other way. I'd rather be responsible and poor, then slimy and rich. This is also why I am not and will not link to them. Because it would simply mean more money for them and I'm not supporting that. This is a responsible site and while blogs get a bad wrap sometimes because of the gossip blogs like the one I'm talking about here, there are good writers out there that maintain blogs that take the responsibility very seriously. If you hate rumors and made up garbage, I hope that you, as a Bad Boy Blog reader, will let your actions speak for your beliefs by not visiting websites that push an untruthful, often hateful agenda. Thank you for reading.
John J. Moser of The Morning Call has a feature on Donnie Klang.
''People know me from 'Making The Band,' '' he concedes. But he says there's also ''a whole bunch of people that just really don't know me, 'cause I'm a new artist. So I'm just trying to get my face out there and do everything I could possibly do to let people know, 'Hi, I'm Donnie and my album's out.' ''
One way to do that is opening for Backstreet Boys, which Klang will do at Reading's Sovereign Center on Thursday, the Wellmont Theater in Montclair, N.J., on Friday and Wilkes-Barre's Wachovia Arena on Saturday.
Donnie Klang will be going on an eight city tour with the Backstreet Boys, in October and November.
Dates have been posted on his MySpace.
Back in August, I
interviewed Donnie Klang. We talked about his Bad Boy fandom, his debut album,
"Just a Rolling Stone," Diddy's encounter with video critic James Montgomery, on Klang's behalf; and more.
Read the full text of the interview and
listen to part 1.
Here's the second half of the interview in audio form. This is just the raw audio taken from the phone call, so the quality isn't that great. I also had some technical difficulties that degraded the quality a little more than normal. Still, if you're a fan of Donnie, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
In addition to
YouTube, the audio is also on
MySpace and
imeem.
Back in August, I
interviewed Donnie Klang. We talked about his Bad Boy fandom, his debut album,
"Just a Rolling Stone," Diddy's encounter with video critic James Montgomery, on Klang's behalf; and more.
Read the full text of the interview.
Here's the first half of the interview in audio form. This is just the raw audio taken from the phone call, so the quality isn't that great. I also had some technical difficulties that degraded the quality a little more than normal. Still, if you're a fan of Donnie, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
In addition to
YouTube, the audio is also on
MySpace and
imeem.
Check out
part 2.