They might do better if they stayed out of politics and performed. By nature, artist’s are tools anyway.
“Though in actual fact they pour a tremendous amount of creativity into their art, just like the musicians and even more so at times.
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Bull!
Supply and demand.
There’s any number of musicians that can be turned into the Next Big Thing™.
There’s few who actually turn any given band/name into headline acts.
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” — Thelonious Monk
I’m not sure why music writers even exist. You just have to listen to music to tell if it sounds good to you. Who cares what some failed musician thinks? In fact writers are the kind of people who make good successful people feel that they have failed.
My son works for Citrix by day and is a Punk Rocker (guitarist, writer, bass and vocalist) and promoter her in NC. His day job is for the $ his after hours job is for the love of his preferred music which makes him zilch as far as money goes.
Instrument players are a dime a dozen.
Some clearly better than others.
Composers are a different breed.
Look at the music credits for the Original music composed by.
Danny Elfman?
From Oingo Boingo?
Mark Mothersbaugh?
From Devo?
Blogging is an art now?
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