It’s no secret that I am a big fan of Leslie Hall. It is difficult to find another person who has more unapologetically discovered something they were passionate about and embraced it with more gusto.
“All these 80′s movie I’ve seen and the 90′s movies are about someone ‘discovering’ you and making you a star. It’s BS!
You do it yourself. You literally do it yourself. And if you don’t/can’t do it, fake it.”
Of course I think everyone has seen the kinds of movies she speaks of. I am frequently dumbfounded by just how often I encounter musicians and bands that think all their problems will be mysteriously over once they are “discovered by a label.”
In a funny way, though, a large proportion of the population must still believe that’s what it is like. Or we wouldn’t sit here labeling Leslie Hall as an “entrepreneur.”
An exciting opportunity exists for all such entertainers. An opportunity to take charge of their art. An opportunity to bring it directly to its intended audience without interference from middlemen. (Ask Sophie B. Hawkins or Robyn Loau about some of the unique “challenges” actually being signed to a record label can entail.) Indeed an exciting opportunity to discover in a very fundamental sense that if you don’t look after yourself, no one else will.
