"The Music business might be broken but music is not broken. If the music industry wants to survive you’re going to have to sign real artists, and you’re going to have to stop signing pretty 15 year old girls who don’t know how to sing, stop signing bands that are put together with an audition, its not lucrative you keep doing it, I just wonder when they are going to learn their lesson, I don’t know if it’s a power thing, that they don’t want to admit that they can’t smell the talent but there’s some people who can." - Lady Gaga

Lovingly borrowed from Ron Chapman’s documentary ‘Who the F**K is Arthur Fogel?’ It is a must see, giving an insight into the top-end of live music, and available on Netflix.

[‘Who the F**K is Arthur Fogel?’ - Told by some of the most powerful figures in today's music business, this documentary outlines the evolution of our most important cultural industry]

Lady Gaga on the broken music business

"It’s not like the old days, to say what; I’ve put a lot of money out for this band, 2 years from now they’re going to be huge. No one can wait 2 years, odds are you’ll be fired. For the most part it’s because the record companies don’t have the income any more, and they need a return now. They can’t keep making investments in their minds, they’re wrong, investments that pay off 2 and 3 years down the line. They have to start showing bottom line figures now.  You know, the only major companies are stock companies, they are public traded stock; they have to show a quarter, improvement every quarter. That’s the pity of it all, that there aren’t people supporting this next generation of young bands of 18-22 and 18-25 year old bands. And that’s a fault of a lot of the promoters too. They don’t put any money into the young bands. They just don’t. They wait til they can sell 3000 seaters or better, and they become a Live Nation AEG act, and that sucks." - Elliot Roberts

Lovingly borrowed from Ron Chapman’s documentary ‘Who the F**K is Arthur Fogel?’ It is a must see, giving an insight into the top-end of live music, and available on Netflix.

[‘Who the F**K is Arthur Fogel?’ - Told by some of the most powerful figures in today's music business, this documentary outlines the evolution of our most important cultural industry]


Elliot Roberts on the pitiful music business

Sam Siri covers Sam Smith's 'Writing's On The Wall' from James Bond movie SPECTRE starring Daniel Craig as 007.

This was made using Apple's Siri to illustrate how bad autotune is. Why do "good singers" need it? Leave the gadgets to James Bond. Honestly. And Siri stick to being a PA.

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