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Discussion: Label's Control on Artists
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Label's Control on Artists
How much control do you think record labels have over mainstream artists in terms of their image, fashion, attitude, music, and music videos?
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Member Since: 10/3/2010
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average control.... probably more than the artists when it comes to single choices sadly
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So do you think for instance, half the stuff Gaga says is under her control or the label tells her to. For example, her love for the gays.
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Plenty, especially over the newer acts. Gaga is probably the only one who gets any control.
As for some of these other artists I won't even bother, even certain established acts have zero control over their careers.
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I think it really depends on what they deliver musically and how much the artist cares to control everything. The more impressed they are with the product, the more they are lenient. While, if they aren't liking the music, they'll try to control how to market it or make them record more, etc.
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Originally posted by jcsfreebitch
So do you think for instance, half the stuff Gaga says is under her control or the label tells her to. For example, her love for the gays.
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Gaga is making her people so much money they don't give a **** what she does.
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Originally posted by jcsfreebitch
So do you think for instance, half the stuff Gaga says is under her control or the label tells her to. For example, her love for the gays.
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Gaga truly loves all people. I don't think her record label is asking her to so this. Gaga has more control over her music and image then most artists.
Example
Record Label wanted Dance in the Dark as third Single
Gaga wanted Alejandro as third Single
Alejandro was the third Single
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Originally posted by jcsfreebitch
So do you think for instance, half the stuff Gaga says is under her control or the label tells her to. For example, her love for the gays.
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No.
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Sometimes they have no choice, RCA killed My Decmber because of Kelly's objection to them.
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They have lots of control, especially over new artists no matter how successful their debut may be. The fact remains that the label pays their money and so they expect to get what they want done. Toni Braxton and TLC are huge examples, during their primes they were still being controlled heavily and it ended badly for both of them, who were selling wonderfully, yet they still weren't being fairly watched over. It takes time and money, not to mention trust to be able to control your own career as a young artist like Beyonce or Kanye West.
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Originally posted by Hi.Ðefinitiøn
Plenty, especially over the newer acts. Gaga is probably the only one who gets any control.
As for some of these other artists I won't even bother, even certain established acts have zero control over their careers.
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Like who? I think it is pretty obvious that Katy Perry's label wanted to spice up her image and fashion sense for the TD era.
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Originally posted by jcsfreebitch
Like who? I think it is pretty obvious that Katy Perry's label wanted to spice up her image and fashion sense for the TD era.
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Eh.... at Katy. She has some input.
Ke$ha's label is definitely pushing the drunken, glitter party girl thing until it dries up.
As for other acts, Rihanna, Britney, etc... not so much.
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Originally posted by Hi.Ðefinitiøn
Eh.... at Katy. She has some input.
As for other acts, Rihanna, Britney, etc... not so much.
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I can see Britney having no control over her career at all.
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If you're a mainstream artist like Rihanna, Ke$ha or Katy, I doubt you get 100% control. That's just how I see it.
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Newer artists are especially being controlled. Ke$ha's label had her songs written for cannibal before she even set foot into a studio.
Katy Perry was in with Dr. Luke also for a whole album, the label wanted a more modern sound from her.
Britney has no control, she is given producers and writers before she even knows she's doing a new album.
I can see Beyonce, Avril, Gaga, artists like that doing what they want. Avril had trouble though this year with it but she went on a strike over it and eventually they're releasing the album she wanted out, but yes they try to control as much as they can.
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Justin Bieber is so obviously controlled. People tell him what to do, what to say etc. Not everybody can have control.
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Rihanna
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Originally posted by -Lewymocha-
Newer artists are especially being controlled. Ke$ha's label had her songs written for cannibal before she even set foot into a studio.
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Originally posted by -Lewymocha-
Newer artists are especially being controlled. Ke$ha's label had her songs written for cannibal before she even set foot into a studio.
Katy Perry was in with Dr. Luke also for a whole album, the label wanted a more modern sound from her.
Britney has no control, she is given producers and writers before she even knows she's doing a new album.
I can see Beyonce, Avril, Gaga, artists like that doing what they want. Avril had trouble though this year with it but she went on a strike over it and eventually they're releasing the album she wanted out, but yes they try to control as much as they can.
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So Kesha didn't even write We R Who We R? What a liar, she claimed she wrote it about the recent suicides.
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Originally posted by -Lewymocha-
Britney has no control, she is given producers and writers before she even knows she's doing a new album.
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Britney currently doesn't have as much control as she had before. This doesn't mean she doesn't have control. She had control during the Britney era, In The Zone, My Prerogative and Blackout era. Is everyone forgetting how Jive wanted complete different single choices than Britney. Britney got her way in the end. My Prerogative had Britney releasing Do Somethin as an international single when her label didn't even want to touch that. She fought with the label to release it and she won. Blackout, well it's obvious she had control. She was an executive producer and did as she pleased during that era. The only controlled eras are her first two eras and Circus. Stop acting like if she doesn't have control.
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