(03-09-2013, 05:25 PM)Miguel Wrote: 5 Points discovered her at a songwriting conference and signed her to a multi-record deal. They paid a well-known producer (who had worked with Paul McCartney) $50,000 and gave Lana "a significant advance." They put out an EP under Lizzy Grant and a programmer at Apple liked it. "So we got featured based on the EP as one of the iTunes emerging artists of that year."
And then we were moving towards the whole album and that’s when things shifted. She wanted to change her name, got new management, they wanted to change the record.
...The manager came in and was insulting about the record, and I thought, “Wow, we’re an indie label, we got David Kahne to produce this record and you’re negative about it.”
...We put out the album digitally and at first she wanted it “R-A-Y” and then we did one version of it that way, and then she wanted to change it to “R-E-Y” so that was now the third name we were using to promote that artist. Shortly after that, her and her new manager came in and said “We want to get this off the market. We’re going for a completely new deal. We’ll buy you out of the deal.” So we made a separation agreement.
So that’s why it never came out?
They literally insisted. That’s in the contract. We can’t have any reference to it anywhere. They were following up on it weekly, “Oh, there’s an obscure website in outer-Mongolia that still has a reference to it, can you tell them to pull it down.” We did. We took it off iTunes and never released it as a hard CD.
http://www.mtvhive.com/2012/01/30/lana-d...interview/
So, a small label made a significant investment in her. She got some recognition on iTunes. Then her management bought them out of the deal (btw, Lana's father is wealthy). In doing so, they wanted to make sure Lana's earlier songs were not available anywhere on the Internet.
I read the article and from what I can tell it appears that her first big hit-Video Games was self produced-that is after they bought out of her contract with 5 Points-unless I'm missing something.But either way-they may not have wanted her earlier songs on the Internet but they wanted Video Games on You Tube and my main point was that at the time when they posted it on You Tube that she didn't have a record deal and it wasn't until after it had racked up the millions of views that she got signed by Interscope.
