Next time you hear some record company marketing suit spouting canards about filesharing destroying the music industy and claiming that major labels companies are on the same side as the artists, point them at this post about Hollie Smith being screwed over by EMI.
So a couple of months after signing, they came through and said ‘hey we think you’ve got a lot of potential, we want someone to write you a radio single and start doing the whole radio-friendly single thing’.
“I said ‘well, give me a month and I’ll write you a couple and you can say if they’re adequate or not. And if that’s the case, then sweet and if not, let’s talk about the idea of someone else writing my stuff because I don’t want a cheesy pop song that’s totally irrelevant to the rest of the album’.
They were like, ‘cool, cool, cool’. I sent them over some stuff and I hadn’t heard back from them and I rung them again and said ‘what’s happening?’ And they’re like ‘oh we’ve decided not to release your album at all internationally’.
Read the whole thing. The sooner EMI are flushed down the toilet history, the better.
