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POed-poster · 12-07-2009, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by kane

I might bed to differ on that. I'm not a huge fan of hers, she has a few songs I like, but country music is not really my thing. Still, her dad might have been able to get some connections and get her a record deal, but a rich dad doesn't make you a world wide superstar. Look, for example, at Brooke Hogan. Her dad is famous, and has spent a ton of money trying to turn her into a big music star and it hasn't worked.

Having a rich dad with connections doesn't translate into selling out a world wide arena concert tour in minutes. Maybe in 10 years she will be gone. Maybe not. But really, when you look at it (and if you are involved in the music business you know this) the shelf life of most big musical acts is about 5-7 years. They have a few hits records, then fade away. There are some that last and others that get huge then drop down and are small again, but keep going. They make a living, but aren't major stars. 10 years is a very long time in the music business.

Here are the charts from about this time of year in 2000
http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-...ate=2000-12-17

Of the top 10 maybe 1 or 2 of them are still around and you could argue of those 2 Faith Hill, while still big, is nothing like she was then and Beyonce is big, but Destiny's Child is broken up. The rest have faded away and I'm sure there are people on there most people don't ever remember hearing of.

So in reality most musicians would dream of having Debbie Gibson's career. Most musical acts,no matter how talented or driven, burn out and fade away.

Swift has a young audience, but she also has a lot of older fans. She will have to hope the younger fans stay with her as they get older (and that is a very hard thing to do), but country music is one of those things where a lot of times fans stay loyal to an act.

And even if she disappears in a few years she will have already sold more records and concert tickets than 99% of musical acts ever will. Daddy's money can get her in the door. But it doesn't buy success like that.

I agree with you that no amount of money can make people like you as an artist and yes, people like Taylor. But her fan base consists of mainly pre-teen girls, the same kinds of fans that Leif Garrett and David Cassidy had. Those fans tend to grow out of their obsessions. But being popular doesn't mean that you have any talent. He singing is average and her songs are mainly written by professional song writers. That is how it's done in Nashville. Sure she gets lots of co-writes, but that doesn't mean she contributed more to the song than ideas. A lot of it is also business. Artists demand and usually get co-writes when they didn't write any of the song. Rob Thomas didn't write 'Smooth' and John Denver didn't writer 'Country Roads'. There are also cases of outright theft. I know a guy who had a song stolen by Brooks and Dunn. He sued and ended up settling for 45K when he realized that all the musicologists in town were going to side with the label (because the label had deep pockets). The music industry is as crooked as any industry out there, outright thieves.