I hope everyone
had a great Labor Day weekend! This week’s post will be a little different from
the normal ones that I do. I feel it was important to shine the light on a
music artist in a slightly different way. So this week I viewed a TED Talk by
Alt-rock icon Amanda Palmer.
In Amanda
Palmer’s TED Talk she discusses how she made money before her music career took
off. In her early days she work as a self employed street performer. The
interesting fact about this time in her life was that it turned out it help to
prepare her in furthering her music career. Once her music career started she
wanted to keep some of the same tactics as her street performer days of
entertaining the crowed for help in return. Throw out her tour she would put
out notices using social media sources to let her fans know she was in town.
They were willing to help with food and places to stay. The beauty of this was
the fans did this for the pure fact they loved her music. Amanda eventually was
signed to a major record label. She got the chance to release her first album.
Once the album was released it was consider a failure because it only sold
25,00 copies. This turn out to be a blessing in disguise for her. When she went
back on tour people where coming up to here handing her cash for music. So this
encouraged her to lose her record label and use her fans back her music and the
rest is history.
Amanda Palmer’s
lives by the theory of not making people pay for your music. Let them. I think
that this is something that the music industry has stepped away from. The music
industry has become focused on making a hit song and making money. They have
forgotten to respect the fans that help put the artist in the spotlight. I
Think Amanda Palmer is a true example of an artist. She knows how to stick to
who she is and who she wants to be as a music artist. But she also respects the
music fans that put here their. I know that this is the type of artist I would
not standing behind to help put them in the musical spotlight.
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