For as long as there have been people with talent to share, there have been people waiting impatiently to exploit it. P.T. Barnum was the first to realize that a) you could make people pay a nickel to see a woman who couldn’t afford a Lady Bic razor on her face and b) you could pay the woman herself a penny if she would just stop shaving her beard off. Barnum was shameless in using any perceived talent (sword swallowing, knife throwing, anvil lifting) or any physical infirmity to sell tickets. He became massively rich and his ‘performers’ became slaves to the grind. Some were smart enough to negotiate riches in partnership with Barnum, others were just glad to have a few square meals a week and a place to sleep every night. It beat the alternatives.
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JAIMIE VERNON: ARE YOU THE NEW JOHNNY BRAVO?
Posted in Opinion with tags Bay City Rollers, Boy Bands, Brady Bunch, Brian Epstein, DBAWIS, Disney, Don't Believe a Word I Say, hipsters, Jackson 5, Jaimie Vernon, Johnny Bravo, Justin Beiber, Michael Buble, music, music publishing, One Direction, record deals, Records, Simon Cowell, Spice Girls, Teeny Boppers, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Monkees, The Osmonds, whining on March 2, 2013 by segarini
In recent weeks I’ve been contacted by various music artists through various social medias (funny how the telephone is no longer one of them) to pick my brain for the millionth time on how to sell their wares/songs/nubile posteriors up the music industry food chain in the guise of a record deal or publishing deal or both.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 