It finally caught up with Sheryl Crow.\u00c2\u00a0 Famous for showing up anywhere someone would pay her, seemingly at the opening of a mall (do they still build those?), Sheryl is now the poster girl for corporate excess.\u00c2\u00a0 All due to Maureen Dowd.<\/p>\n
Sheryl’s nice.\u00c2\u00a0 She had breast cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 She shows up at the appropriate rallies, she supports the right causes.\u00c2\u00a0 Why not Chicago, or Earth, Wind & Fire?\u00c2\u00a0 Why beat up on Sheryl Crow?<\/p>\n
Because Sheryl had a patina of hipness, she still appeared to be current.\u00c2\u00a0 And Maureen Dowd was angry that the public was paying for her performance at the Northern Trust extravaganza.<\/p>\n
In case this hasn’t reached you yet, Northern Trust, a bank, took our money and then flew their peeps out to Southern California for a golf tournament, where they wined and dined them, even closed the House Of Blues so they could showcase Sheryl Crow.\u00c2\u00a0 Only problem, we, the public, paid for this show!\u00c2\u00a0 What’s a bigger crime, scalping tickets to shows people want to see, after all, that’s supply and demand, or major corporations filching money from us in great quantities?\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously, the latter.\u00c2\u00a0 But now it’s become a sexy issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Because they’re truly doing it on our dime.<\/p>\n
So you can’t pay a private anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 Not for a corporation that drank from the corporate till.\u00c2\u00a0 The watchdogs have hit the entertainment business.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not gonna look good.<\/p>\n
Then again, maybe this is just confirmation that Sheryl Crow is a has-been.\u00c2\u00a0 Now maybe the public will realize she can’t sell a record, can’t play the big rooms for big bucks anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 Does she still have her Universal deal?\u00c2\u00a0 I’d say she could sell product at Wal-Mart, she’s the perfect candidate, no woman has done it yet, but didn’t she sing that song about selling guns at the store that got her product banned?<\/p>\n
Well, if she can take the Northern Trust bucks, er, our money, maybe she can do a mea culpa with Wal-Mart.<\/p>\n
This is why she needs to be part of Irving Azoff’s organization.\u00c2\u00a0 He could rehabilitate her, get her not only that Wal-Mart deal, but a ton of revenue from Live Nation for merch and other ancillary streams.<\/p>\n
The future isn’t the corporation, not the major label or Northern Trust.\u00c2\u00a0 The future is you, and your fans.\u00c2\u00a0 Grow this link.\u00c2\u00a0 The easy corporate money is gone, the whole world is watching, a cop for faux pas, and the traditional labels want more rights for more bucks.\u00c2\u00a0 Who’s the indie promoter who’s gonna save Sheryl Crow?<\/p>\n
It’s a modern music business.<\/p>\n
And don’t tell me about sexism…\u00c2\u00a0 This is girl on girl hate.\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, today’s article in the "Wall Street Journal", featuring a giant pic of\u00c2\u00a0 Sheryl, was written by a man.\u00c2\u00a0 All publicity is not good publicity.<\/p>\n
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