Is Your Beat Really Hot?

How many times have you let people listen to your tracks and get comments like "the mix is off" or "EQ that differently". They may in fact have a valid point. However, if the person you are talking to is a music business contact (i.e A&R, entertainment lawyer, or manager) then their critique is probably a bull crap excuse just to stall you or string you along and keep taking money. Sad but true, a story that employees at Trackmasterz know all to well.

Have you listened to the crap that's on the radio? It's awful and if Britney Spears can get a recording contract then you know they're lying. Has nothing to do with talent, again it's all about money to them. They have to see you as a product, a product they (major record labels, marketing firms, and distributors) can manipulate, sell, and dispose of easily (if need be and heaven forbid). It's a dirty dirty industry, but life is dirty. It's no dirtier than congressmen and senators lobbying for campaign money. Yeah that's pretty dirty!!

In short, you have to be careful about believing criticism. Examine the source it comes from, determine their motives, then decide should you take their advice and go back to the drawing board. Hell, they could just be trying to take the song.