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It is not hard to observe the fact that in UK music industry everyone seems to be playing for themselves and keeping their cards very close to their chest.
I think I have just worked out the reason why artists are very selfish human beings.
In most cases this is due to the fact that people are selfish by nature and do not like to share their knowledge and wisdom with others (like I am doing here right now), but also (in smaller number of cases), because giving others the right to 'manage' them is like signing your life away to another person.
People love to 'be right' and in UK we are 'all always right' and we all also have a very different view and take on what is good and what should be recorded next (some are even having different views on what should have been recorded before!).
On various different occasions I have tried to explain to people my own vision of music and some concepts I have had, usually to have them shot down by people who do not have a better vision, but are more like lazy bastards who simply hate to see someone else have a good idea and maybe turn it into a concrete product.
Another reason why you might want to be selfish is because other people may want to stake a claim on some of your own intellectual property (we have all heard of those dreaded stories of someone else pushing a knob on a mixer during a recording process and later on finding themselves as 'Executive Producer' of the whole album).
A formula for success is usually to have a good 'structure' on approaching the industry, knowing exactly what can be said, what should be done over a contract and what should simply be left untold.
An artist should be able to keep control over their portfolio of work and make money from it at the same time – yes they need to be in demand, which usually means being quite unique (which is what most people struggle with the most).
So, selfishness runs in the industry and it is often understandable – with us here the idea is to be open as much as possible with the right people in order to create long term positive results for all, have fun while doing it and therefore make some money in the process as well (actually, make that 'make lots of money in the process as well').
14th Apr 2007
7:09 PM
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