Blog Party: That Retail Chick puts on for her city's struggling artists
It's been over a year since we featured Desiree Williams in Creative Loafing. At the time, she'd just played an integral role in helping Atlanta soul mainstay Anthony David garner commercial radio spins on V-103 (WVEE-FM).-
Since then, Williams, who manages Sound Shop at the Mall West End, has been extending her retail/industry expertise beyond the record store via her funny-as-hell, informative column, That Retail Chick, in which she dispenses priceless advice to unsigned artists.-
Check out several of the tips from a recent post - Top 20 reasons artists don't make it in the music industry - on her newly established blog, That Retail Chick:-
3. &-;I'm from OHIO and I moved to ATL to break my music because OHIO ain't feeling me???"-
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- If you can't make a name for yourself in your own city, do you really think it will be easier in ATL? If you just moved to Atlanta thinking this is the place to make a name for yourself in the music industry, take a number. Because you just got in line with a slew of other folks that came here to do the same.-
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7. "Artist development…man f–k that, I got SWAG!" -
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- For all of the artists out there, that have deals, songs on the radio, reality TV shows, or the ones that have no buzz at all; Swag is no good without PERSONALITY and media training is a must! Fans want to see a STAR! And grabbing your pants to hold them up while try to walk or acting stand-off-ish around fans will not work! You may have swag on a record or in a video, but your personality is at Level Zero in person!