The music industry

The music industry. I love music and artists (not all of them though lol ) but everything else just fucking bothers me haha 

I'm out here doing my best every day, supporting artists as much as possible because I believe in people more than I believe in myself. In high school, all I ever did was spend so much time on the internet and look for new talents and then promote their music online. That's how I started. I learned a lot about music and its history. I studied artists, singers, songwriters, producers, engineers... I studied songs and those timeless songs we still listen to today. I was very passionate about how a song was made (and still am), and who were the people behind each song.

I intensively promoted artists online - and some of them didn't even give a shit but I kept doing it because I believed in them (pretty naive of me right). Even though I ended up being disappointed, I still learned a lot from this experience. This industry is rough, and it's even harder when you feel like you have to prove yourself every day. It's harder when people throw mean judgements at you, harder when you're a woman, harder when you're a French/Asian girl living in a small town of France where no one else does what she does, harder when you started as a "fan" because no one takes you seriously, harder when you didn't accomplish big things in this industry because people will think you're irrelevant, harder when you don't know the right people... 

I’ve been treated like garbage by some people, I've been taken advantage of and I've had people treated like I was stupid and people who made me feel so special and then told me to fuck off, and some people who I thought they were friends completely shut me down just because I wasn't important enough to them... It is not because you're "successful" that you have the right to treat people like shit. There's a huge lack of respect and equality in this industry and I fucking hate it. 

I've made some great friends in the industry though. I helped a few friends/artists I believed in for quite some time. Then I stopped and started this blog.

But I've been missing this feeling of helping artists on a daily basis. This shit brings me so much joy and excitement. That's why I launched my services for artists. I want to be a part of these people who make a positive change in this industry, a part of these people who actually care about the artist. And I also want to be a part of these people who are making money from doing what they love. Man, I think it's one of the few things I'm actually good at. This business may work or may not work, but at least I am trying, and no matter what happens, I will always support artists. 

At the end of the day, the industry is what it is. We have to accept it, but we can make positive changes on our own. 

I think the most important thing is to have someone who really cares about you, someone who truly respects you as an artist but also as a human being, someone who lets you be who you are and someone who really believes in you. The one who really believes in you is the one who will go above and beyond for you and who will treat you as a human being. 

It's crazy all the amazing things you can do when you believe in someone. 

- Virginie