MySpace Musicians

The only way to become a famous music artist is to start at the age of six on the @#$%!ey Mouse Club and work your way up from there. This is what anyone will quickly discover after watching a large amount of pop culture television. However, in this day and age, that statement couldn’t be farther from the truth.

The music world has left the “child stars turned pop stars” behind with the twentieth century. Take a look at the great musical talent of today: Lily Allen, Kate Nash, The Arctic Monkeys, My Chemical Romance, Sean Kingston. When they were six, they were in school where they belonged. The key to their success is something much more accessible. All anyone really needs is a microphone, Internet connection, and let’s not forget the key ingredient, talent. Hopeful musicians and music lovers alike are googling “MySpace Music”, with the possible promise of fame and fortune and the guarantee that you will find some sort of music that doesn’t make you cry out in agony.

Whether their goal is to become popular “mainstream” or if their music is more “avant-garde”, MySpace musicians have often found what they are looking for. Signing up for a MySpace account costs no money, and the site allows artists to display pictures, biographies, and even post songs and videos.

MySpace has its own record label, MySpace Records, and has occasionally signed with musicians whose profiles become incredibly popular in a short period of time. Music executives and A & R representatives from large companies have been known to surf MySpace for potential talent. Ingrid Michealson, an unsigned artist from New York, had her music discovered by executives from the popular television show Grey’s Anatomy, and had several of her songs featured throughout the last season. The viewers loved it and Michealson’s career skyrocketed without the help of a label.

In only the past few years, success stories like these have become more than just fantasies, and everyone is taking notice. A MySpace music page has quickly become a necessity for up coming artists, and it makes sense. Music has taken over the Internet and the Internet has taken over music, so where else would new artists look for success than where they have seen the success of others?

The easy accessibility of the website, along with its quick and simple set up, lets MySpace music create the change that many have been hoping for in the music world. Artists no longer have to have images decided for them by a company. They no longer have to conform to the sounds that we hear on the radio. Musicians now have the freedom to be who they want, and they can let their fellow music lovers decide whether or not they’ve got what it takes to make it in the music scene. Finally, creativity and talent will once again be the deciding factors of musical success.