Lady Goo Goo single release scuppered by Gaga
Global kids website Moshi Monsters today reveals that its plans to
release a music single from one of its most popular characters Lady Goo
Goo have been scuppered as Lady Gaga takes out a court injunction to
prevent the release
The character making waves is Lady Goo Goo, one of the 52 Moshling
characters that appears in the hugely popular Moshi Monsters game. She
became an internet hit with the release of her music video 'The Moshi
Dance' on YouTube back in June - drawing in around 1m views per month.
With over 50 million registered users worldwide, Moshi Monsters has a
huge global community of kids aged 6-12 years-old who had fallen in love with the
character's song. Following its huge internet success, Mind Candy - the
company behind Moshi Monsters - had planned to release the 'The Moshi
Dance' track on iTunes via its newly formed music division Moshi Music.
The track was also scheduled to appear on an upcoming album of Moshi
music for release later this year.
However, during a hearing at the New Rolls Building in London on Monday
10th October, an injunction was granted preventing Mind Candy from:
'promoting, advertising, selling, distributing or otherwise making
available to the public The Moshi Dance OR any musical work or video
which purports to be performed by a character by the name of Lady Goo
Goo, or which otherwise uses the name Lady Goo Goo or any variant
thereon'.
Gaga's lawyers banned the song, claiming that kids might not be able to
tell the two pop starlets apart, despite the obvious differences between
them.
Michael Acton Smith, Founder and CEO of Mind Candy and creator of Moshi
Monsters commented: "This court ruling is a huge disappointment. It's
pretty obvious that kids will be able to tell the difference between the
two characters. The shame is that millions of kids fell in love with
Lady Goo Goo's debut single on YouTube and now won't be able to enjoy
her musical exploits. It was all done in the name of fun and we would
have thought that Lady Gaga could have seen the humor behind this
parody."
MoshiMonsters.com is an online world of adoptable pet monsters for kids
aged 6-12 years-old. Since its launch in 2008 the site has signed up over 50m
users worldwide - with one new sign up every second. It also has a
hugely successful product range including toys, books, trading cards and
the Moshi Monsters magazine - the largest selling kids title in the UK.
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