angel345 said:

Timmy84 said:

Well blues songs back in the day were raunchy but you can tell the imagination in there.

Which was the point I was trying to make, although it could have been articulated better. Nowadays, what makes it so bad, half of the time, you know from their lyrics who they're banging, who did them wrong, who got played, as lastdecember put it, especially rappers. Little or nothing to the imagination.

Even when things got raunchy, it was tasty but today's music lazingly admits to it lol

The biggest problem she's had was coming out right around when people started downloading music.

A lot of people might be using You Tube to promote, but most people try to get some mileage out of festival shows.

I was reading the book Keith Richards wrote, and the reason why the Stones started writing songs, was because their manager said they're going to run out of covering songs and then be lost and forgotten. Plus it was extra income in their pocket - he said that they wrote songs for women that they'd never imagine themselves doing. There was a time when a LOT of artists weren't writing their own stuff.

What's kind of funny about her interview is that she goes into the image part of it, and it's directors, not label heads, that decide what people wear in videos. She's right when it comes to an album cover, but they only comment on videos when they're overbudget or might be too controversial for music video channels (which can now go on the bonus "special edition" DVD).

In the 50s-60s, the artists were expected to make their money off of live shows, and the record company would profit from a bulk of publishing. They met in the middle on how much the records sold, but the contracts forced them to record or they wouldn't get paid. This went on right into the 80s.

Bob Dylan was performing other people's songs, but at the same time, he was writing a bunch of songs with the intent for other people to record them, the "Witmark Demos" CD that just came out mentioned it in the booklet. The Beatles and Beach Boys also farmed out some songs they didn't feel fit the band, or gave it to them as long as: if The Beatles had thought about making a single, it was to be an album cut, and if not, then the artist that would cover it could record a single. The Stones did the same thing.

There's a lot of artists that would dispute songwriting is dying out. Most people collaborate,sometimes with bandmembers, sometimes with outside writers, but few write music and lyrics on their own.

Dance music can have great lyrics, but most of the time it's not the case.

She was probably told about the unfortunate fact that she does not have 2,000 fans in the USA who could have made her best of album enter the chart.

LiveToTell86 said:

She was probably told about the unfortunate fact that she does not have 2,000 fans in the USA who could have made her best of album enter the chart.

P-Diddy once said, and it is recent, the average life span for an musical artist is about four to five years. Not too many of them make it that long.