s=seanmcgrann
me= well its kinda obvious don't you think? (swimfan625)
S: they never did have true hip hop roots - signing to fueled by ramen is like signing to whites cant jump are us. its just not hip hop
me: why the hell does it matter who they're signed to as long as their music is getting out and they're signed? if someone came up to you with a record deal I highly doubt you wouldn't start jumping for joy/piss yourself even if it is "like signing to white cant jump are us"
s: it matters ALOT about what label they sign to, the label decides what songs get onto the album, what singles are released, what producer is afforded to etc. so yes their sound can change ALOT depending on the label. and no i wouldnt sign to any label. thats like someone saying hey wanna buy my house and u saying WHERE IS THE CONTRACT, the band can lose alot of money if its the wrong label. it can ruin a band if its the wrong label. so highly doubting is abit silly dont you think?
me: Actually it doesn't because the label doesn't control the music that much. They control what music gets onto the record but its the band's job to record the album and the label would not have hired them if they didn't think the sound they had was something that could get sold. If you're too stupid to realize that not everything is controlled by someone in a corporate office that's not my problem and your comparison about buying a house DOES NOT APPLY TO YOUR ARGUMENT. Go back to school Hon.
S: you are all* learn punctuation before you call someone else stupid.
me: Aww can't come up with a better argument? That's sad.
S: so here it is
im in university completing a degree, a british one, so pleeeeasse keep your smartarse comments to yourself, i could run rings around you if i wanted.
the label has tons of control, because the band makes no money from records anymore, they make it from touring, the label owns the album they make, they put in the money so they own it, read up the feud between glassjaw and roadrunner and hawthorne and victory which will prove my point.
so no, im not stupid, i know alot about this. i laughed at how you said its not controlled by corporate offices, YES IT IS! THATS EXACTLY HOW IT IS DONE, its a fucking business, its to make money, bands dont sell tapes out the back of cars anymore, they dont have any freedom
lets be honest, ur an idiot
me: Just because you're somewhere completing a british degree doesn't mean anything. I'm still in high school yet I've got admittance letters from British Universities and done an exchange program in France.
The label does not control what the band makes, if you think that there's no freedom in music anymore then you should get out of your little dorm room and actually go to a concert every once in a while. Bands do sell tapes out of the back of trucks. Bands do play demos in front of large audiences and PR people listen to see what the crowd likes. When you're signed to a contract you're allowed certain liberties and controlling the genre of your music is one of them. If not then most of the current rap stars would be out of the business for crossing genres every other day.
The whole business is to make money by producing things that the public likes. The public generally likes what the band plays because if a band's playing something that they're not into it's obviously going to suck. Thus why boy bands aren't around anymore.
Oh and if you're going to make comments about people's grammar a. listen to your own words and b. don't use internet slang it just makes you seem pigheaded and ignorant
S: i go to atleast 4 gigs a week
i work with sony
and i have alot of contacts at gigs
so your whole lets play demos and sell tapes out of the back of trucks just made me think what? do you live in like 1992 over there?
and i will use internet slang because guess what!!! infact i wont even say it
your wrong, i'm right
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even if you reply i will ignore it, you make me laugh too much, the US is bullshit for schools, and i highly doubt a yank can get a place over here, considering what you just said is wrong, you cant be accepted to a british uni until august 20th when a level results come in, ner ner! moron
me: There's this thing in life it's called an EP. There's another thing called a demo. People sell them out of the back of cars and on streets all the time. Sony isn't one of the greatest companies so that really doesn't improve your argument. Sony's known more for selling the equipment that things are played on and producing faulty security CDs. You're just a pompous jackass who's so braindead he's arguing with a girl who's barely 17. I don't care if you ignore it I'm having fun doing this, its a cure for insomnia. AND I WAS ACCEPTED LAST YEAR GENIUS SO NER NER BACK TO YOUR ASS
If you were actually twenty you wouldn't be going around with name-calling but I guess that just means you can't argue to save your life. To argue you actually need to make yourself look credible and if anyone can glance at a comment on youtube and notice that you're not then you have a lot of growing up to do.
p.s. it's YOU'RE not your, you corrected me on grammar and punctuation but guess what, yours is worse than mine and I actually have an excuse for it