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Originally Posted by BigAl84
Oh I'd be so down for that songwriting gig - write some good tunes and make crazy money, without the rigors of touring or fame.
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Yep, you couldn't give me fame on a platter. I only want the paycheck!!!!
My cousin was a finalist on ********(big national singing competition show) a couple of years ago, and has signed a record deal with someone out of LA(I forget the label name)....but if you would see all the sh*t behind the scenes, she's literally on the phone all day long, has her own full time "Karen", and endless rehearsals, and (to me anyway) it's just a nightmare! Just walking onstage and singing for 90 minutes would be awesome, but it's another 16 hours of hell, getting there. NO THANKS!
And know what? She's a lovely person, but her sisters want nothing to do with her, because she's living the life of a princess diva. She works hard for it, but IT'S NOT REAL LIFE(just like Stevie). She's sort of living in a fairy tale world, and the "regular" people in the family really want no part of it. And I'm now retired from the music business, and I'm so sick of it, too. I pretend that I'm interested....
So, I've been making new friends in the past couple of years, and there's not one musician, artist, or actor among them! Just plain old regular working folks. They talk about life, not themselves(which is all musicians do).