What does ‘making it in music mean’ to you and to us?
We get daily emails from people that tell us they want to ‘make it’.
They fall into several categories.
The Musician Classes
Many people genuinely fall into a class I’ll call the ‘bewildered’. They may or may not have talent and they may be prepared to put in the years required to hone it and promote it. But, either because the landscape of the industry is so rapidly changing around them or because they somehow don’t feel they fit the modern music industry paradigm (genre, age, material all being cited), they simply don’t know how to go about realising their dreams.
The ‘bewildered’ might also fit into one of the other categories as well. If they’re just bewildered and have time on their side, they may be able to dig deep, develop their talent and learn to promote and market and thereby give themselves a chance to ‘make it’.
Then there are the ‘wannabes’ who really don’t care what music they should make, they just want to get famous and music is their chosen path. Most often they have no material for us to listen to and no online presence for us to check out. They think that because Rihanna has the world’s top songwriters and producers at her disposal, they can persuade a music industry ‘playa’ to do the same for them despite there being zero evidence that they have either the ‘chops’ or the work ethic required.
These people don’t generally stand a cat in hell’s chance.
The majority of the people that we get to hear from are the ‘aspiring musicians’ who, as above, may or may not have talent but they believe that they do and they are doing something about it. They’re writing and recording, getting out and playing gigs, building …read more
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