Full "Farmer's Daughter" video online

On a day when I thought the only new Crystal Bowersox video online would be her performance from Ellen, it appears that I was wrong. After FOX Toledo (WUPW) leaked a small preview of the "Farmer's Daughter" music video Tuesday evening, VEVO has posted the full video online and now, of course, it is also on YouTube. After her publicist, Gina Orr, had tweeted the video was not going onto rotation on VH1 until Jan 3, it seems odd that it would suddenly appear on VEVO. Is it a coincidence that this is happening a day after Hits Daily Double predicted Crystal's first day sales would beat Lee's and Amazon ran out of stock of the physical CD (as well as many retail stores in the Toledo area?) I am not sure if this is a predestined marketing tactic or if everyone in the industry could have underestimated her sales that much. I wonder if now that Jive realizes she actually does have a fan base they are going to try to do a holiday push to drum up more revenue. In any case the video is pretty powerful and reminds me of "Concrete Angel" by Martina McBride, but with a happier ending.

But she was on Ellen too, but after the music video, the live version almost seems anticlimactic. A great performance as usual, but the music video really shows her personality even more. I wonder if all those free copies of the album to Ellen's audience counted as album sales.

Oh well, my "American Idol" blog here has pretty much turned into a Crystal Bowersox blog. Oh well, I guess I cannot help jumping on the Mamasox bandwagon too...