Chris Anokute, Capitol Records Senior A&R Director has this to say about Ashley Alexandra Dupré and her "aspiring" music career.
"I think her song is absolutely terrible. If people are interested in signing her, then they shouldn't be in the music business. It'd be a shame to exploit her talent based on the unacceptable reality that she was involved in. Most importantly, it destroyed multiple families. I don't think the scandal will help her at all. In fact, I think the public is a bit smarter than we think they are. Even though she's had over a million hits on her MySpace, I think people are just going there to see her pictures and laugh at her attempt to pursue a music career."Tell us how you really feel, Chris. In all honesty, he's pretty accurate in his claims about her and her music. However, will this stop someone form signing her with such an incredible amount of publicity already surrounding her (4.6 million myspace page hits, 711,000 song plays on myspace...that is before they shut down her page)? I highly doubt it. Why, you ask? For the same reason that someone would sign/distribute Kevin Federline...free publicity that the record company doens't have to spend millions of dollars on in order to "break" the artist.Quote from Billboard
Granted, this is equivalent to saying that you're saving money purchasing items when a retail store has a sale, when you're actually spending money (you only save when you don't spend). It sounds good when you say it, but it's not factual, logical, nor does it really make any sense what-so-ever.
After listening to her two songs available (click here if you dare), I completly agree with Chris Anokute. Her voice is not very good (pro tools-ed to the 10th degree) and the songs are terrible. Maybe if she had some incredible song writers behind her and a great producer to fix all the pitchy notes in her songs she could sell a few albums, but then you'd end up with another live performance reminiscing that of Ashley Simpson.
No comments:
Post a Comment