“The Beatles were laughed at in America, they sounded nothing like Elvis or the Four Seasons. Then, suddenly, seemingly overnight, people threw off their mental constructs and embraced the four lads from Liverpool.” Huh? When? The early Beatles resold black girl groups to the place they came from. That’s what early Beatle’s did.
Despite an early mistep they were huge from the second album on in the States.
But the hugely succesful blogger Bob Lefsetz proves yet again HE SHOULD WRITE ABOUT THE INDUSTRY AND NOT THE MUSIC.
His post about Sade was simply ridiculous. It’s about the fucking demo you fat head. It’s about delivery, it’s about distribution. Sade has a certain demo who are more comfortable buying CDs and therfore she made a ton of money. Ke$ha is great but she sells songs not album. Selling a million CDs is the equivalent of selling 14 million downloaded songs.
This is the guy who gets more hits in an hour than rock nyc does in a week.
Shoot me now.