Comments by "yessum15" (@yessum15) on "JRE Clips"
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@Laocoon283 100% not true. Unfortunately, reality disagrees with you. Netflix is successful despite the fact that i can literally go to duckduckgo and find any movie streaming for free within the top 3 results.
When Weezy's new album dropped i listened to it on Spotify despite the fact that it was widely available on bittorrent and i already had utorrent installed on my PC.
Even before Napster, tape decks allowed you to get music for free from your friends. The industry didn't fail.
Nothing is free. Limewire, kazaa & napster were expensive in terms of time investment because you'd frequently get corrupt versions of the song, mislabeled copies, viruses, etc. And the product offered was inferior. Time is not free. Furthermore, breaking the law is not free, and even though the risk of getting caught is negligible, it still creates marginal stress and occupies a bit of thought.
The problem is that the only official alternative was ridiculously overpriced, produced in a very restrictive format (CDs), and sold to you by blatant white collar criminals.
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The current opiod crisis is present in a bunch of conservative strongholds. Also, most major cities are liberal anyway, so hard to single out 'liberalism'. Particularly the cities with pleasant climates year round, that make outdoor living practical (eg: NYC doesn't have a public shit problem)
Also, much of the current homelessness is the result of conservative scaling back of the social safety net including reduced funding for welfare, mental health services, lack of public healthcare, affordable housing initiatives, etc. Not to mention Republican led financial deregulation that has caused multiple financial crises in the past 30 years.
If you were to remove the number of people who were made homeless due to lack of access to mental health services, or due to bankrupting themselves paying for a medical emergency, or due to losing their jobs or savings because of a financial crisis, you would probably not have a homelessness problem to begin with.
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@MichaelJames-lz7ni This is not true. Record sales revenue did not pay for production costs. Rather, the tiny portion of record sales revenue earmarked for the artist were used to pay production costs (and multiple other invented fees). The company's share was untouched. This was known as 'recoupment'.
Many platinum artists did go bankrupt directly as a result of predatory recording contracts (TLC, Toni Braxton, etc.).
Furthermore, it's extremely misleading to include examples like Madonna & Michael Jackson who are radical outliers, even among platinum artists (who are already outliers). This doesn't represent the prevailing reality. It's a bit like studying poverty but only looking at homeless people who won the powerball lottery twice.
Finally, it's important to understand that even among these super-outliers better terms came as a result of contract renegotiation subsequent to their success. They lost a lot of money under the terms of their first contracts.
The prevailing wisdom amongst managers, agents, and financial advisors was that in the absence of some miracle, the vast majority of artists (particularly debut & sophomore) should expect to realistically earn $0 from recording royalties after fees were deducted, and focus on merch, live shows, and capturing as much of the advance as they could. This was all the case before the invention of .mp3
Let me be clear: Unless you were already a multi-millionaire, there was no way in hell you would see a million dollars from selling 1 million records.
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@unnamed776-m9h This is well beyond my field of expertise. I understand contract terms and economics, but I have no idea what it takes to make a star. I wouldn't feel comfortable giving much advice in this regard.
That said, I can suggest generally:
1) Keep costs down
2) Perform often
3) Focus on establishing a living wage through your work before thinking about being a star. Being a star is a unicorn/winning the lotto type thing. If you can earn a living wage from your art, you're already ahead of most people.
4) Find visual artists that can help you with branding. A cheap way to do this is to find senior year visual arts students.
5) Read any contract carefully. Do not sign anything on the spot. Always ask politely for time to review. No exceptions.
6) Seek the assistance of pro-bono lawyers. Organizations like Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts provide these services at little to no cost.
7) Try to minimize the duration of any contact you sign. Preferably 3 albums, although this is often difficult to get them to agree to. More than 5 is too much.
8) Treat the enterprise as a small business.
9) Get health insurance, establish a savings & retirement fund, go to the dentist and brush your teeth. These sound silly, but little things like this derail entire careers. An unchecked cavity can become a career ending disaster when you find out an infection has spread and you need $10,000 to treat. Now you have to get an exhausting job and are trapped in a cycle of debt that is difficult to break free from.
10. If you get signed, treat your advance like the only money you'll get, because its the only thing guaranteed.
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