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The question of real vs manufactured personified

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No, record companies MAKE what sells. If they gave those contracts to people like Adele they would have just as much success: all they have to do is throw their weight behind them. That’s what a major label does: it gets exposure. If they committed to people who are talented, they could get the same success. But, they would then have someone on their hands who with their talent and fame level could go to another record label, found their own, or demand a better deal.

Instead, record companies chose the minimally talented, malleable types like Katy and Rihanna, who were and would be nothing without them, so they know they can never leave, because without the labels producers and songwriters, they would be irrelevant.

Christina could have made her own label, gone on a show, or joined Broadway. Pink could tour, Beyonce could sing and dance her way up, Gaga could make herself into a Vanessa Carlton type and have indie success. They all could have managed without major deals, not the same level of success, but they would have managed.

But girls like Katy or Rihanna? They would be nothing. Without their props and images and handlers, they are below mediocre singers, in Katy’s case an unremarkable songwriter, and in both cases no dancers. Lana, I think lyrics wise could have been fine, and her voice is okay. If she really wanted to stick it out, or had a view of herself as an artist she wanted to present, she probably could have still made it.