Natalie Merchant On industry fabrications
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Natalie Merchant dishes about always wanting to be an artist never a pop star.
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I really admire her for being brave and choose new paths for her career. She's so unique!
It's really interesting that there were so many phenomenally talented women in popular music in the 1990s, so many auteurs who really wrote, composed, played and sang their own music, and then-poof!-most were wiped out by the music industry machine and not replaced by many brilliant newcomers. Of course, artists like my favorite Tori Amos never went away at all and have produced huge amounts of work and toured constantly, but she and others are gone from popular consciousness and most people probably assume they never made music after the 90s. Amos took control of her career, too, but she has had to battle with record executives since age 35 or so, since they've told her to go away and enjoy her money because there's no place in the music business for most women ages 40 and over. And we can see that survivors like Madonna and Cher and Fiona and yes, Tori, and likely Natalie here, are picked apart for their appearances while no one ever male artists really never get criticized for aging unless all they had to sell in the first place was sex appeal.
Very few walk away or resist the lure of Fame but Natalie has never been comfortable exploiting herself & losing her anonymity, which is the price to pay for a chance to be a massive commercial artist. Somehow Natalie has kept her dignity and her standards of high quality music without taking off her clothes or selling non-musical products on television as a celebrity. She's one in a million!
And I love the new Tigerlily. In fact, love them both. They're like a beautiful river: EVER THE SAME AND ALWAYS RENEWED...
Thank god. These fabricated stars don’t have her natural voice talents and need the stylists, auto tune, ghost writers, to get a attention. She was a natural and needed none of it.
I think they could have made her a huge superstar, she was absolutely gorgeous with a stunning voice; however, she is beloved for who she is as a singer, songwriter, musician. Natalie is comfortable with who she is, and that’s admirable in that business. I remember her saying she’d got some advice from Pete Seeger, and he said to live in a community where she is part of the community, it keeps you grounded. Natalie’s done that in the Hudson Valley and has all her peeps and musical friends. Nice.
She is still easy on the eyes.
She'll always be a babe!
@@davideb8473 Intelligence coupled with a conscience and empathy for others is very attractive.
I don't know if Elektra had plans to make Natalie Merchant, after she became a solo act, a regular superstar pop act but I do believe that she not wanting to be one and wanting to be the artist she wants is genuine.
But in the late 80’s and into the 90’s she was a superstar pop girl singer. Even if she was trying not to be it happened anyway.
I have her ladybird Album and its my favorite of hers. I dont like the redone Tigerlilly. Where I Go was a favorite that I didn't like the remix.
Here's something to ponder. Would Natalie Merchant have been more successful as an industry fabricated pop star? In my opinion it might work only if Ms. Merchant was all in. Otherwise they would have an unhappy camper in her, who would do it half-heartedly at best. It would show and the music-buying public might not want to buy records from her.