By: Philip Newman

Kyle Bylin writes about the changing of times, how both fans musicians, have adapted to these changes, and how they’re exploiting them.

The artists exploit them to keep fans interested, and the fans exploit them to keep interest with the artists. Its an amazing cycle.

As has been stated before, there’s much detail put into the fact that all of this involvement is required by artists today, to keep fans, and its hard work as well.

The key is: with popularity, comes more of a workload, but more of a payoff.

Its hard work, but its worth it in the end.

It used to be that if you worked really hard as an artist and garnered a large enough following through blood, sweat, and tears — that if you did these things, played enough shows, and were patient enough — a record label might sign you. And, if you were able to consistently make music that people loved and albums that sold millions of copies, you could make music for a living. The rest of the more mundane details and business arrangements would be taken care of by your label, and one day, if you were successful enough, you may never have to actually make music ever again. As counterintuitive as that seems, becoming a top tier artist meant that you could, in a sense, pursue other interests. But those dreams have come and gone faster than anyone wanted to anticipate.

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