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, 26 May 2012 21:28:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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?

]]> By: Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598672 Maura Johnston Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:48:10 +0000 http://7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598672 <p>@<a href="#c6033959">kathotdog</a>: he's also parking on a driveway. what is his deal!</p> @kathotdog: he’s also parking on a driveway. what is his deal!

]]> By: kathotdog http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598682 kathotdog Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:38:03 +0000 http://7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598682 <P>Obviously if he's " giv(ing) CDs away for five bucks" he's not giving anything away. That would be selling.</P> Obviously if he’s ” giv(ing) CDs away for five bucks” he’s not giving anything away. That would be selling.

]]> By: TriedandTrue http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598692 TriedandTrue Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:51:45 +0000 http://7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598692 <P>Wasn't Tila Tequila suppose to bring the revolution to the music industry, too??</P> Wasn’t Tila Tequila suppose to bring the revolution to the music industry, too??

]]> By: Nicolars http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598702 Nicolars Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:04:50 +0000 http://7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598702 <p>Are all of the album covers going to have cum bubbles crudely drawn on them?</p> Are all of the album covers going to have cum bubbles crudely drawn on them?

]]> By: scott pgwp http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598712 scott pgwp Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:56:32 +0000 http://7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598712 <P>"cool partnerships with Wal-Mart"</P> <P>That dude has pulse all over his finger.</P> “cool partnerships with Wal-Mart”

That dude has pulse all over his finger.

]]> By: okiedoke http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598722 okiedoke Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:49:06 +0000 http://7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598722 <P>" ... I'll give CDs away for five bucks ... "</P> <P>Priceless!</P> ” … I’ll give CDs away for five bucks … “

Priceless!

]]> By: loudersoft http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598732 loudersoft Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:26:28 +0000 http://7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598732 <p>or wait did I mean Clive Davis</p> or wait did I mean Clive Davis

]]> By: loudersoft http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598742 loudersoft Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:26:08 +0000 http://7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598742 <p>@<a href="#c6027667">Maura Johnston</a>: You and I agree. I think Perez frequently "accepts" too much credit for a lot of the successes that he's "attached" to. Further, I think they're giving him too much rope (aka too much money) for what he's purporting to do. Perez Hilton, as much as he'd like us to think differently, is not now nor will ever be David Geffen.</p> @Maura Johnston: You and I agree. I think Perez frequently “accepts” too much credit for a lot of the successes that he’s “attached” to. Further, I think they’re giving him too much rope (aka too much money) for what he’s purporting to do. Perez Hilton, as much as he’d like us to think differently, is not now nor will ever be David Geffen.

]]> By: Jay-C http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598752 Jay-C Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:22:18 +0000 http://7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598752 <P>"Obviously I have an ear for talent"</P> <P>I'm guessing that the only part of him that has any...</P> “Obviously I have an ear for talent”

I’m guessing that the only part of him that has any…

]]> By: alec_baldwin http://idolator.com/394984/perez-hilton-to-save-music-industry-with-new-label-old-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-598762 alec_baldwin Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:15:51 +0000 http://7e94897088d2259da2bf2ded28644591#comment-598762 <p>@<a href="#c6027667">Maura Johnston</a>: Agreed. I can't imagine that Tom Whalley is excited about this, but who knows. Maybe it was his idea.</p> @Maura Johnston: Agreed. I can’t imagine that Tom Whalley is excited about this, but who knows. Maybe it was his idea.

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