Re: lost another venue

JoeSpareBedroom <dishborealis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Clive
says this is a desire shared by almost every artist; no one thinks they're
taken seriously until they write - to which Clive replies, "Billie Holiday,
Lena Horne, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra - are these people taken
seriously?"

While Clive does have a point, he's also being disengenuous. The main
reason artists want to record their own original material is that the
song writers are the ones making the real money. For someone on a brief
fame curve, such as the winner of one of the Idol TV shows, the benefits
of getting even one of their own songs on the album, even if that song
does not turn out to be a hit, are financially rewarding - and if they
do manage to produce a hit they have an income stream that will last
beyond peoples memory of who won 'Idol'.

The examples he gives are of people who started their careers at a time
when singers rarely if ever wrote their own material. Until the 1960's
the idea of artists writing their own material wasn't considered
credible - and the record companies discouraged it as it isn't in their
own best interests. So using those artists as examples is really quite
telling.

In the 1960's artists like 'The Beatles' in the UK and people like Bob
Dylan and other perpetrators of 'the great folk scare' in the US blew
that model out of the water.

Whenever record company folks trot out this argument note that they
almost never cite artists from the 1970's or beyond - this is because
since then the artists who are taken the most seriously pretty much all
write some or all of their own material.

--- Derek

--
Derek Tearne - derek@xxxxxxxxx
Many Hands - Trans Cultural Music from Aotearoa/New Zealand
http://www.manyhands.co.nz/

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