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My ignorance may be showing, but this article seems a tad hyperbolic. As mentioned by others Lisa Loeb also had a #1 (nearly 20 years ago!) while she was unsign
by leepowers 14y ago
My ignorance may be showing, but this article seems a tad hyperbolic. As mentioned by others Lisa Loeb also had a #1 (nearly 20 years ago!) while she was unsigned. Is Macklemore really a harbinger of things to come? Or an outlier, an aberration that appears once in a generation? I suppose time will tell. But the article builds a mountain of expectations from the success of a single artist.
- thejsjunky 14y agoThat's a fair point, I would note though that when Loeb hit #1 it was as part of a movie soundtrack that (with all due respect to Loeb) she probably would not have been included on if she wasn't friends with Ethan Hawke. She then went out and got signed to release her debut album. This isn't entirely unique, but I do think it's a product of changing technology/culture which is interesting and novel in many ways.