Making it her own

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Making it her own

12-13-2012, 04:21 PM, (This post was last modified: 12-13-2012, 04:23 PM by Tom22.)

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RE: Making it her own

A couple thoughts:

1) isn't a drop more "no new contract extension - no commitment to additional investment" NOT "getting layed off"

A contract probably lasts 1 year. There was probably an option in the contract that would have required them to make some additional expenditure or commitment to producing a second album to keep her signed.

I mean.. if it would have cost Interscope nothing to keep her signed they would have kept her signed, right?

I haven't really been able to get more information about what "dropping" means but from my real estate perspective , landlords and tenants must negotiate a new lease at the end of a term. What interscope was offering might not have been enough, or what they were demanding (a 360 contract?... who knows) was to much to commit to for Haley in return for a commitment for additional promotional expenditures.

It could also be that Interscope didn't really offer anything serious because they knew it would take more financial outlays on their part and they just didn't like the future risk/reward of additional expenditure.

At any rate, I'm not sure that a company refusing to put more money into a venture is a sign of dissing their former partner, and certainly doesn't imply a lack of musical respect in itself.

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2) On "Free" , I can read between the words and -imagine- (not be certain) that the commitment to promoting that song was made long before the other songs were written.

The song "Free" was written by a pretty big Name song writer right ?

I can certainly imagine that a big name songwriter/produce "shops" a song around and negotiates terms for ALLOWING a musician and label to have rights to the song. "Lady gaga and taylor swift have shown some interest in putting it on their albums, what can you offer me ?" (substitute more likely names if you like)I can certainly imagine that the terms for Haley getting the song included a commitment (contractual or based upon sustaining an ongoing business relation ship with that writer/producer team) that they would have Haley release that song as her first single.

A commitment to a third party based upon what looked best the summer before the rest of the songs were written couldn't just be shrugged off because after seeing the songs they might have given an edge to another.

I just think it could be naive of us to assume that interscope did choose Free over the others instead of committing to Free earlier.

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