Lucky 13

I think that you do need some degree of luck to have success in the music industry. What I mean is that sometimes success can start by being in the right place at the right time. Like your band is playing at some bar and there just happens to be a record label representative there and likes your sound. Also knowing the right people is sometimes lucky so you can get signed and have success.

Getting lucky and having a public break down, like so many of the artist now a days, can definitely give you great success. Luck always plays a part of success because even the most talented people may not get any success. Someone like Kelly Clarkson probably would not be a household name if she wasn't lucky enough to try out for American Idol. To me she is so talent and the talent was almost wasted. So yes, luck does play a part in success.

But of course you need some degree of talent to make it. At least I believe that there has to be some, if very little, talent in someone to have success. Of course there is auto-tuning and lip syncing that can be done, but maybe the person had great writing skills but didn't have the singing abilities. So people might say that Britney Spears got all her success form luck or sexuality, but I believe that she can sing at least a little. And of course she has all the publicity to help her with her success, but I think there was some talent to begin with.

I don't know if I can think of anyone that has gotten by strictly on luck or strictly on talent, maybe there is, but I can't think of any (any suggestions?) Even greats (or at least in my eyes) like Shania Twain had luck on there side (Shania was discovered at the Deerhurst Resort in Ontario). So like I said before, I think you need a combination of luck and talent to have success in the music industry.

Rant #2

To start off, I am expecting no one to agree with this one, because I might be the only one that feels this way. What I'm really trying to say is that I believe that "emo" is not, or rather, no longer a genre of music.
First of all, lets look at what emo is defined as. Emo is short for Emotional. Now there are a lot of emotional songs in all kinds of music, but hardly any of them are labeled as emo, only the ones that are in rock music and dress a certain way. And that is what music is to me; a fashion. If a band is dress even remotedly emo (stranger that usual hair cut, tight pants, band t-shirts), there music is labeled emo. I mean Britney Spears and the Jonas Brothers have emotional songs (I know, hard to believe), but they aren't labeled emo, because they don't look at all. Emo is a fashion. I, in no way consider emo a genre, it may have been about 12 years aog, but as of the mid 2000's, no sir.
And that happens to a lot of the new bands around today. Most of them if they are some form of rock, they will automaticly be labelled as emo. This is very unfair because they are automaticly lumped into a stereotypical genre and in some ways, are over looked (unless you are Fall Out Boy) and there music isn't taken as seriously. Honestly, this just grinds my gears so bad.
Another thing that bugs be about emo is people saying that emo people are always depressed and cut themselves. This is just disrespectful. Depression is nothing to laugh about and both depression and cutting are serious pysological disorders and take years to get over. No one should joke about that. It's horrible.
Anyways, I think the main idea I'm trying to get across is that I don't believe emo is a genre anymore. It's all about the fashion, not the music.