A Screeners Perspective?

[louis2012]

May 17, 2009, 5:24am, mojobone wrote:I think I'd be a little encouraged that Katy Perry became successful-she must be doing something right, to my way of thinking, seein' as how she's got chart hits and I got, erm, bupkis. I know what you mean but I don't think her success is down to her talent, a team of experts saw a gap in the market and needed an American version of Lily Allen (a British pop singer) If you compare their image(especially 1st album photoshoots) and reputation for controversial lyrics, Perry is a blatant rip off. My point is, Taxi had no idea she would be huge when they hired her and I'm not prepared to believe that they saw her as some kind of guru on cool(especially as she had just been dropped by columbia when they hired her) Perry was just in the right time and place...which is how the pop industry works. I quite like Perry...but as a screener? No way.

[mojobone]

Again, having been dropped by a label means to me that she had the talent, market savvy and smarts to get on one in the first place. Besides, I'm pretty sure she wasn't the only screener at the time. But we can agree to differ.