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Susan Boyle? |
Welcome to 2010..it shall be a great year. I so declare it. I feel that I need to blog about Susan Boyle.
First let me say that I think she is a sweet woman, with a triumphant
and touching story..here's the but. I don't think she's as good as we
wish her to be. I believe her courage and story transcends her talent.
That's not enough for me. She just set the all time record for cd sales
for a woman in the first week of release. A cd with no original
material. All cover tunes..of other artists who wrote and set the
creative style for those songs..yet they don't have the sales record.
We have moved past wanting authenticity and originality and moved right
into accessabilty.. that could be us/you up on stage. If Susan can make
it big.. well.. anyone can. It's magic.
The music business is a lottery. I'm not being bitter or pissy when I
make this next statement. I feel like I've wasted 40 years taking
guitar lessons, missing family birthdays and weddings while I was on
the road playing clubs. Not having a day job because it was important
to me to make myself available to write songs, often with writers
better than me.(that's how you get better). I thought it was important
to approach music as a full time job. Apparently now..anyone can do
what I do!? If I didn't love it so much, I could have chosen a way
easier road to this point.
Nike has a saying "These guys are Good". I'm not sure that sentiment
exists in the music industry in reference to that professional motto.
I'm sure professional athletes wouldn't mind if making the big leagues
was a lottery. It would make a great story..he/she would be one of us.
We could see how many home runs a team could hit in one inning off a
"great story". And I'm sure demeaning the years toiled playing high
school and college ball..not to mention the bus trips in the minor
leagues wouldn't bother the players at all. I'm sure they would openly
embrace a "Susan Boyle" or one of the reality show Idol winners. Have
we set the bar so low..everyone can jump it!? I believe this."it's
supposed to be hard, if it wasn't everyone would do it"!
I believe Susan Boyle has a beautiful story, but I believe she is just
a pretty okay singer..and maybe that's enough..maybe the jokes on me? I
know it's not. I wouldn't change my life and how i've approached my
career and how I will in the future. I just want you to think about
what I've addressed. I want you to appreciate the commitment made by
many "lifer" musicians and singers who never got the break that Susan
did. Many of them teach your kids to sing and play an instrument. We
need to stop demanding record companies give us what we want and allow
cool original and authentic artists give us what we didn't know we
wanted. We're gonna wake up one day from this Walmart dream and realize
we all have the same bed sheets(cd) on our beds. Dreams do exist for
everyone..hope is something we all need...but as a lottery, success is
far from sweet and somewhat stolen.
I think I've ranted enough. My kids are great. Josh is still liking his
first year of high school and Katy has decided to go to University and
become an English teacher..cool huh? The new cd is getting closer to
done. Beginning of May at the latest and we'll have a new single in
about 3 weeks.
I hope you're well..take care..Jamie
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| 20 Jan 2010 by marti |
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