Comments on: Perez Hilton To Save Music Industry With New Label, Old Ideas http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:00:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598572 Anonymous Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:17:26 +0000 7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598572 <p>@<a href="#c6061961">Ultragrrrl</a>: outsourcing outsourcing outsourcing. That's what unemployed people are for, right?</p> @Ultragrrrl: outsourcing outsourcing outsourcing. That’s what unemployed people are for, right?

]]> By: alec_baldwin http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598612 alec_baldwin Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:24:01 +0000 7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598612 <p>@<a href="#c6038769">owenmeany</a>:</p> <p>A) Whalley and Ted Field signed 2 Pac to his first solo deal at Interscope back in the day. I'll always have a soft spot for him, even tho Field prolly did all the work. And there is the little matter of, ahem, the Paris Hilton album. Everybody blamed the Disaster Twins, Lyor and Edgar, for Madonna's departure. Wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't engineered, in part, by Whalley. Madonna was jacking up his sales numbers way before the twins arrived.</p> <p>B) Good. TVT perhaps?</p> <p>C) Anybody can. The industry, in part, is in the shape it's in because of bloated A&R salaries.</p> @owenmeany:

A) Whalley and Ted Field signed 2 Pac to his first solo deal at Interscope back in the day. I’ll always have a soft spot for him, even tho Field prolly did all the work. And there is the little matter of, ahem, the Paris Hilton album. Everybody blamed the Disaster Twins, Lyor and Edgar, for Madonna’s departure. Wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t engineered, in part, by Whalley. Madonna was jacking up his sales numbers way before the twins arrived.

B) Good. TVT perhaps?

C) Anybody can. The industry, in part, is in the shape it’s in because of bloated A&R salaries.

]]> By: Ultragrrrl http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598582 Ultragrrrl Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:13:08 +0000 7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598582 <p>@owenmeany: again, you need a person with connections to make that sort of thing (film/tv syncs) happen. working/dealing with those negotiations is a full time job, so i hope he has someone to do it for him. again, i'm not saying that he cant, because i'm sure he can... it's just that it'll take a lot of his time. time he can spend focusing on breaking stories/artists/people on his blog.</p> @owenmeany: again, you need a person with connections to make that sort of thing (film/tv syncs) happen. working/dealing with those negotiations is a full time job, so i hope he has someone to do it for him. again, i’m not saying that he cant, because i’m sure he can… it’s just that it’ll take a lot of his time. time he can spend focusing on breaking stories/artists/people on his blog.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598592 Anonymous Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:18:51 +0000 7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598592 <p>@<a href="#c6041126">Maura Johnston</a>: Nah - why not get the scout AND the platform to expose?</p> @Maura Johnston: Nah – why not get the scout AND the platform to expose?

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598602 Anonymous Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:17:07 +0000 7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598602 <p>@<a href="#c6056216">Ultragrrrl</a>: If Perez is smart he'll form a publishing company, not a label. Fuck a CD sale. Get me those film/TV syncs and mechanical royalties!</p> @Ultragrrrl: If Perez is smart he’ll form a publishing company, not a label. Fuck a CD sale. Get me those film/TV syncs and mechanical royalties!

]]> By: Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598632 Maura Johnston Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:36:51 +0000 7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598632 <p>@<a href="#c6038769">owenmeany</a>: but wouldn't hiring the popjustice editors cut out the middleman, since that's pretty much where perez gets all his stuff anyway?</p> @owenmeany: but wouldn’t hiring the popjustice editors cut out the middleman, since that’s pretty much where perez gets all his stuff anyway?

]]> By: Ultragrrrl http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598622 Ultragrrrl Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:49:19 +0000 7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598622 <p>i wish perez the best of luck with this. it's certainly not easy having a record label. recording an album, finding a producer, getting funds to record, choosing good songs, finding the single, getting the artist to agree with you on the single (or anything else), dealing with online marketing, offline marketing, touring, getting tours, paying for tours, getting videos done, getting videos played, finding a budget for those videos, getting press, more marketing, dealing with artists, getting cds in stores and shipped, dealing with the industry when nobody is making money, dealing with a major that wants records to be sold when you yourself are very used to stealing music... it all takes away from what makes you, you. i hope he has someone else running the ship for him so that he can focus on being perez and having his main contribution be blogging about the artists whenever they have something coming up. otherwise, he might see the same fate as ultragrrrl.com, which for all intents and purposes went by the wayside so i could focus on all the above things. social life gets kissed goodbye. as does health. as does happiness, and with that goes the reason why you're there to begin with, which is your love of music.</p> <p>perez probably wouldve been alright off if he did this without warners and hired some sort of label manager for $50k/year (specifically one that got fired from a major) to take care of all the things a label needs to worry about and got a private investor or use his ad revenue pay for things a la rcrdlbl.com ...</p> i wish perez the best of luck with this. it’s certainly not easy having a record label. recording an album, finding a producer, getting funds to record, choosing good songs, finding the single, getting the artist to agree with you on the single (or anything else), dealing with online marketing, offline marketing, touring, getting tours, paying for tours, getting videos done, getting videos played, finding a budget for those videos, getting press, more marketing, dealing with artists, getting cds in stores and shipped, dealing with the industry when nobody is making money, dealing with a major that wants records to be sold when you yourself are very used to stealing music… it all takes away from what makes you, you. i hope he has someone else running the ship for him so that he can focus on being perez and having his main contribution be blogging about the artists whenever they have something coming up. otherwise, he might see the same fate as ultragrrrl.com, which for all intents and purposes went by the wayside so i could focus on all the above things. social life gets kissed goodbye. as does health. as does happiness, and with that goes the reason why you’re there to begin with, which is your love of music.

perez probably wouldve been alright off if he did this without warners and hired some sort of label manager for $50k/year (specifically one that got fired from a major) to take care of all the things a label needs to worry about and got a private investor or use his ad revenue pay for things a la rcrdlbl.com …

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598642 Anonymous Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:34:00 +0000 7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598642 <p>A) Tom Whalley is an idiot.<br> B) Perez may still launch a label, but it won't be with WB<br> C) He'll do better than most A&R 'execs' who already have gigs that pay WELL over 100K</p> A) Tom Whalley is an idiot.
B) Perez may still launch a label, but it won’t be with WB
C) He’ll do better than most A&R ‘execs’ who already have gigs that pay WELL over 100K

]]> By: scott pgwp http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598652 scott pgwp Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:49:47 +0000 7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598652 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas#c6034218">Maura Johnston</A>: You are my favorite.</P> @Maura Johnston: You are my favorite.

]]> By: Captain Wrong http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598662 Captain Wrong Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:37:20 +0000 7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598662 <p>When he crashed and burns at this, further taking WB down the economic sinkhole they are in, will we finally stop hearing about this idiot?</p> When he crashed and burns at this, further taking WB down the economic sinkhole they are in, will we finally stop hearing about this idiot?

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