Like I mentioned in the past...every singer, composer or songwriter has their own niche crowd following and be it the mixers, producers, record companies, A & R Managers they choose to collaborate with whom they are comfortable. I had turned down a few mixers from established record companies as they could not understand my perspectives and sense of direction be it a concept album...for most of them it is a single release mindset or an album with no agendas or concept.
Nice lah. It's great to know that.
Sorry that we still wouldn't change our minds even before you started name dropping. We are still not interested.
Yeah, indie labels and producers suck goats' balls.
It is easy to jump on a bandwagon signing a recording contract, engaging a manager, joining an online music distributor but whether they cater to your personae and agenda/concept.
True lah. Sometimes I wonder if those Hill songs bands/ acts got earn money for their label. Then again, the evangelistic music industry is a cottage industry on its own.
Cuz it's very fine and mighty to consider everything from the artist's angle (which I really hate. Fucken musicians. Just so bloody self-absorbed.) Look at Amy Winehouse. She's got talent but she's a major alcoholic. I'm sure her managers and her label suited her personae (sic) and agenda. She just cancelled the rest of her tour cuz she's drunk everytime she performs. I'm sure currently her personae (sic) and agenda do not fit her management team's personae (sic) and agendas. Her management team doesn't get paid due to her diva manners, etc and look bad in front of their clients and partners. Not very the nice hor? Artist mah.
You've been talking about artist empowerment in ALL your posts. Here's music industry trend 101 for you in just this post.
Ever wondered why in the mid-90's there were a severe lack in all the grunge bands which they snapped up in the early 90's. All the major labels have pumped in money to look for the next Nirvana. However, quite a few of these bands have taken the advance money to spend on drugs, women and booze with no albums to show for it. Or they might just feel like the concept is not working and they will scrap the whole project.
Then the record label how? Suck thumb, I guess. All the employees in the company probably don't draw a salary anyway right?
So they shifted to do boybands and girl groups. Get a couple of good looking boys and girls. Send them for grooming lessons and pack them off to dancing school. Pay a couple of songwriters to generate the hits. Effectively, they are employees of the company/ management team/ music label more than artists. And they will do anything as instructed by the company.
Good hor? Everyone happy also.
Michael Jackson recently made a remark that he had always had this belief that every song in his album needs to be a hit sort of attitude...it may just be one album in your entire lifetime but it is a quality album whereby every song has that potential to attract every individual who hears it.
Rolling Stones' Keith Richards said that in the '60s: "Record your every song as if it's was your last and make it a hit single."
They might have been friends. Who knows?
Hmm... you subscribe to that thought?
Ha! Perhaps my album would get that extra dosage of attention by The World only when the first rapture comes around...but I won't be around but smiling in a new heaven in Christ....a prophesy album that would be left behind for those who would miss the first rapture.
That's a nice thought you have. At least, you've set yourself a goal.
I just want mine to be played in a strip joint or a sleazy bar. I'm happy already.
