How ridiculous.\u00c2\u00a0 Wind-Up was\/is successful because it plays by COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT rules from EMI.\u00c2\u00a0 EMI is a tightfisted company destroying team
morale by constantly focusing its employees’ eyes on the bottom line.\u00c2\u00a0
Wind-Up is an operation wherein no fee or distance is too large if the company BELIEVES in something.\u00c2\u00a0 Wind-Up is the kind of company EMI SHOULD be.\u00c2\u00a0 Something nimble, that signs few artists it believes in and doesn’t give up on them.<\/p>\n
Not that Wind-Up wastes money.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a lean operation.\u00c2\u00a0 Wherein employees are
allowed leeway, they’re trusted.\u00c2\u00a0 The OPPOSITE of EMI.\u00c2\u00a0 God, if you hire
people and constantly look over their shoulder you’ve got a recipe for DISASTER!\u00c2\u00a0
Wind-Up is a team.\u00c2\u00a0 EMI is a collection of fiefdoms.<\/p>\n
Wind-Up signs what’s not fashionable, knowing that there’s a true audience
for it.\u00c2\u00a0 EMI signs, OVERPAYS, for what’s trendy and is then stunned when it’s
not instantly successful.<\/p>\n
Wind-Up believes in rock.\u00c2\u00a0 The kind of heartland rock that never dies.\u00c2\u00a0 EMI
signs acts like Courtney Love, who had a moment at best, and then front-loads
the promotion to no effect.<\/p>\n
Wind-Up looks for alternatives.\u00c2\u00a0 EMI plays by the rules.<\/p>\n
If ANYTHING should happen here, Wind-Up should buy EMI!<\/p>\n
But, as the old cliche states, EVERYTHING’S for sale.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just a matter of
price.\u00c2\u00a0 Who WOULDN’T take $125 million for a company with only two hit acts.\u00c2\u00a0
Both of which are in question.\u00c2\u00a0 The guy in Evanescence who wrote the hits
having left the band and Scott Stapp starting over as a solo act.<\/p>\n
This demonstrates that EMI doesn’t get it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s about REPLICATING the
Wind-Up model, not BUYING IT!\u00c2\u00a0 But EMI is too caught up in short term quarterly Wall Street cycles.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s got no long term outlook.\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, blaming your lousy
quarter on the slippage of release dates of Coldplay and Gorillaz seems to
indicate you ONLY have Coldplay and Gorillaz.<\/p>\n
Then again, if they buy Wind-Up, they can mess with the numbers one more
time.\u00c2\u00a0 Which might be the only thing EMI is good for, stuff like shipping catalog
records with endless dating.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re constantly putting band-aids on a
business that needs a tourniquet.<\/p>\n
EMI is all old wavers.\u00c2\u00a0 Who don’t get the new game.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is find REAL acts
and develop them over time.<\/p>\n
And you wonder why the major labels are in trouble… <\/p>\n
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