Re:Can Rick Rubin’s creative genius rub off on you?
by alangibson on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:22PM
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That doesn't pass the smell test. He's still producing hit records. If it was just survivorship bias, certainly we'd be talking about him in the past tense given how notoriously difficult it is to stay alive and relevant in the entertainment industry.
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Re:Can Rick Rubin’s creative genius rub off on you?
by paulpauper on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:30PM
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it is easier to produce hits when you already established yourself, because then you get the top talent and have more money and media attention for subsequent records . they are not totally mutually independent events.
Re:Can Rick Rubin’s creative genius rub off on you?
by throwaway1004 on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:34PM
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>how notoriously difficult it is to stay alive and relevant in the entertainment industry.
This smells really bad: the entertainment industry is notoriously hard for the majority of artists to gain a foothold, but there are just as many notable cases of sub-par artists getting ahead through nepotism etc. And that's only discussing the talent, the business end of the music industry has that issue to reductio-ad-absurdum levels.