BOOK EXERPT #2

THE PHANTOM OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS

Hello! Welcome to the second installment of “Book Excerpt” which is I guess what the title of these new sections are called? It’s a horrible title, I know, but I hope it’s the content you are here for, not the title? Hehe.

In my upcoming book, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, I talk about music and the music business a bit (obviously) but when I started writing I wanted to try to make a cartoon of what I was writing “about” from the point of view of my 24 year old self. Back then, i my early 20’s, I did not know the industry (the major label world) beyond its gatekeepers at my level so I had to guess and form a shape for this institution based on rare glimpses, stereotypes and my own reactions; boil it down to a more concentrated liquid. I was either viewing at a distance or looking at it under the microscope; cracking the glass slide by cranking down the lens too hard on it. The following was written for the proposal for this book. It is part early impressions and part looking back with deep experience. The caricature is a kind of Superman villain. Definitely male. This is not IN the book, it more a bonus material situation.