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The music industry is all about marketing, marketing a product to be precise. Here they have had in the past Malaysian Idol and the Malaysian version "Acadimi Fantasia". I met a few of these "Kids" that have been on these shows and they are selling their souls to the machine that is the music industry. These kids sign up for a 7 year exclusive contract and are paid about $1000 (USD) a month, they are trotted out very much like cattle at an auction. The problem is that everyone thinks that the music industry is the good life, or that once discovered they have it made. The sad truth is that most entertainers that make it big, work their asses off. The other issue is that there really aren't that many good singers, most people sing like me, crappy and very few sing like my wife. Ask almost any artist to sing alone and unaccompanied, most will decline.
Its all a magic act and once you have been behind the curtain, the wizard is just like everyone else.
Because my wife is a singer and former pop star, I feel have a unique understanding of the music industry, at least here in Malaysia. Since nothing in Malaysia is new or unique to Malaysia, I suspect it is the same everywhere.
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