David Bowie would have been dropped before he ever made a hit record in today’s hyper-competitive music industry, according to Chic’s Nile Rodgers, who said labels were failing to nurture unique talent & are instead focusing on profit.
The songwriter/musician who produced Let’s Dance alongside Bowie said no modern label would have given Bowie time to produce a hit record after his run of critically lauded but commercially unsuccessful albums in the 1970s.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/12/david-bowie-would-have-failed-in-todays-cut-throat-music-industry-says-nile-rodgers
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