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Originally posted by SamJJE101
Do you honestly believe that no other record label would snap her up? You're acting as if she's some nobody that her label have taken a chance on, yet she's had Top 10 hits for five straight years. I'm pretty sure that she'd still be making music even if RCA did drop her (even if she had to go to The Flaming Lips' label, like you mentioned in your post above).
But yeah, I don't really want her to be dropped either. She can still have success at RCA. She just needs to either release pop and dance-pop music or pop-rock and rock music... not dance-rock and party-pop which doesn't seem to be working for her.
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I kind of do honestly believe that. I don't understand why you guys would think some other major label would pick her up after Warrior underperformed so, yes she had Die Young which was a major smash but to a record label I think she'd just be deemed a risk of an artist to "snatch". What would they gain from her right now you know? I think she should stay with RCA. And yeah she'd be making music without RCA but she'd end up being one of those ex-major artists that signs to an irrelevant label that provides no platforms and her albums, as I said, would be in the dusty corners of the vast online music world. Its not like she'd just convert to being a discussed indie artist lol
I didn't say she'd have to go to Wayne's label, what I said was that Lip$ha is a project with Wayne thats being released under whatever his label is. Its like the collaboration album they made last time only this time its solely Ke$ha collabs. I don't know if his label would pick her up, I mean I know shes close with Wayne apparently but it doesn't mean he can get her signed you know?
And my theory is that she came out with Animal unapologetically making self described irreverent electro pop with no other intention than being fun and kind of quirky. But then she wanted to explore other things and she was blocked from doing so and that frustrated her so we ended up with Warrior which although a solid pop album lacked some of the Ke$ha-specific originality of her first album and its accompanying EP and had a few songs that you could tell were watered down versions of the ****-pop thing she actually wanted to execute. Lip$ha is letting her sow those wild oats shes been yearning to and once she gets that out of her system and can now thanks to Wayne, she can also focus on making that irreverent pop music she started out with. Its a win/win. She gets to explore her alternative side and still make the commercial pop music that she loves as well without one conflicting with the other and that marriage ultimately will give her dimension.