More success without Taxi

[hummingbird]

Sept 30, 2008, 7:41am, avillaronga wrote:To disagree with a critique or a return is one thing. To call Taxi staff lazy simply because you didn't get the results you wanted even though your expectations were unrealistic is quite a different story. I've disagreed with many returns but at the end of the day I have to ask myself: would I have done any better without Taxi? The answer is usually no. All the things you mention about the middle man, etc are industry things, not Taxi specific. Unless you have access to the heads of these companies on your own, your music will always be heard by middle men first, some more prepared and qualified than others. On average, the Taxi screeners seem more qualified than any other similar service. Unexpected/inconsistent results are always a fact of life when dealing with something as subjective as music. The middle man is not playing God, he/she is doing his/her job and trying to help you do yours. As with any job that involves humans, results would vary from person to person, from day to day. Again, not a Taxi thing. Louis2012 raises good points but the response this thread has generated has nothing to do with that, it is simply because people who are more experienced can see how transparent the posting by thedivys is: they're simply frustrated and blowing some steam off by insulting the Taxi staff. Responding with the other side of the coin so that people who don't know any better and find that posting doing a google search is not blindly defending Taxi, it's simply showing that there is another side to be told.AntonioExcellent post, Antonio.

[louis2012]

Hey Mazz, I really agree with you there, joining Taxi is an exercise in putting your music up to varying scrutiny. I can only guess that The Divys have not been used to any kind of rejection and as we all know, if you play the music industry game for long enough its full of it! A thick skin is needed and an open mind. I've absolutely agreed with some of my return critiques and I respect those screeners that call it like they hear it. Perhaps its the non critique returns that cause us so much stress. And the odd unjustified return. It pays to not be too precious about your music when joining Taxi but when the rest of the industry feels like such a closed shop, for some of us Taxi is our only friend.I had no idea that The Divys had made these sorts of posts before. Guys, if your reading this, my advice is to forget about your past successes in relation to how Taxi treats you and make it work for you. That's what I'm trying to do.

[louis2012]

[/quote]Are the screeners Inept? [/quote]Sorry Vikki, I should have made that clearer. I meant that some screeners are inept, not all! I found it interesting that the one or two I've had a problem with have been quite consistent in their rejections in the screener shout out section and I've agreed with other members criticisms of them. Their critiques in relation to what their jobs at taxi are supposed to be about seem...well..odd, almost as if they really should be working somewhere else entirely. Constructive criticism in relation to the listing is great, but when a couple of them go off at a tangent, as if they are frustrated musicians themselves and tell you how they would have produced the piece (with no relevance to the listing) it feels like a waste of time and money on the members part. I could have got the same irrelevant advice from my drunken uncle at a family reunion.

[thedivys]

Taxi is charging us because they supposedly have better judgement than the average musician/songwriter like ourselves in getting songs to the clients. But since they have forwarded at least 6 submissions of ours with no results, maybe we should question them. Just as politicians call you unpatriotic for questioning them, I see we have the same attitude in this forum.

[thedivys]

Taxi is charging us because they supposedly have better judgement than the average musician/songwriter like ourselves in getting songs to the clients. But since they have forwarded at least 6 submissions of ours with no results, maybe we should question them. Just as politicians call you unpatriotic for questioning them, I see we have the same attitude in this forum. Taxi's screener's judgment is what is at question.

[thedivys]

Taxi is charging us because they supposedly have better judgement than the average musician/songwriter like ourselves in getting songs to the clients. But since they have forwarded at least 6 submissions of ours with no results, maybe we should question them. Just as politicians call you unpatriotic for questioning them, I see we have the same attitude in this forum.

[tedsingingfox]

Sept 30, 2008, 3:14pm, thedivys wrote:Taxi is charging us because they supposedly have better judgement than the average musician/songwriter like ourselves in getting songs to the clients. But since they have forwarded at least 6 submissions of ours with no results, maybe we should question them. Just as politicians call you unpatriotic for questioning them, I see we have the same attitude in this forum. Your infantile refusal to dialogue in any other way here than to cut and paste the same old tired bullshit response tells me everything I will EVER want to know about you OR your music.Get lost.

[louis2012]

Hmmm...I note with interest that here in the UK the word Divy means 'mentally challenged' Its fascinating to see that their recent posts confirm this.

[tedsingingfox]

[thedivys]

actually Divy means St. Divy, to divy out the workload or money, and actually the meaning comes from the late Divine of John Waters films. it was Divine's nickname.