From our weekly Roopsletter:
Hello, this is Vaidotas. I watched a Netflix music documentary and was really struck by a comment from Blur’s legendary drummer, Dave Rowntree:
“We made several missteps in our career, you know, it has to be said. Nowadays, if your first single doesn’t chart, you can forget it. That’s a shame because it means that bands like us probably wouldn’t succeed now. And obviously for me, I think that’s tragic.”
Lately, however, it seems labels lure artists in, use them while they’re valuable, and at the first obstacle—they let them go and won’t invest. They turn their backs and plunge into new relationships.
Short-Term Thinking Is Killing Long-Term Artists.
What should artists do? Is there hope that major labels and the global music industry will change?
