I guess the thing about hustling is that if you start first by looking at the industry and how cutthroat it is because competition is fierce, and combine that with whether there's a strong or attenuated relationship between rewards and merits, then you'd expect that anybody who's looking to break into that industry will have over time likely adapted their behavior to try and 'play the game'.
Like being a 'shark' or a 'hustler' I think for most people who aren't in cutthroat industry probably holds a negative connotation because they've probably seen so many people get ahead based on rote aggression who didn't really deserve to get ahead based on the merits. But the thing is that probably those who do deserve to be in the position they're in are probably still capable of being sharks and hustlers as need be because that's the nature of the business, right? Like if you don't know how to guard yourself against the undeserving sharks and hustlers who would seek to take your place, wouldn't you be liable to get eaten alive?
I guess when I use the term hustler I tend to reserve it for people like Kara, who if you watch the interaction between her and Adam in the behind the scenes 20/20 interview seems to me to be cultivating him with dialogue such as:
- Oh, I like that!
- You're buying your own clothes? Okay, because literally, I'm sure there are people LINING up to dress you . . . (on and on and on . . .)
- (big hug)
- (In response to Adam expressing frustration over the whole gay issue) (shaking head), I mean I was like I just assumed it, and who cares? WHO. CARES.
- What they should be talking about was what a phenomenal job you did, what a complete rock star you are, how you can pick the most banging jackets, and you know what you're going to do with your album, I mean that's newsworthy . . .
Didn't Kara seem totally unsold on Adam during AI until she realized he was probably going to end up in a position where she was going to want him to want to use some of her songs?
And now she's co-writing with Adam, even after No Boundaries . . . THAT to me is a hustler, when everybody talks about how somebody on the merits doesn't seem to be very good, and yet they keep getting plum gigs . . . and then if you look at the interaction between the person in question and the decision-maker, there's inevitably signs that the decision-maker were being cultivated, which is a lot easier to see from the outside in when you're not the target . . .
I don't know . . .
PS Snotty, you know why I brought up the 'other part of town' thing is because that's what happened I was at the Safeway in another part of town and saw that happened, but it's not like the other part of town is any different from my part of town - I'm sure there are just as many opportunists living around me as there are over there . . . people are pretty much the same no matter where you go, doesn't it seem? :)
PPS omg are people going to call me a tard again for doing another 'mega post'? LOL I guess my tard is showing but I consider myself a worster too :)
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So now Hi Fi Records is saying that Adam Lambert signed a recording contract with them in 2008 (via MJ's Big Blog). Hi Fi is saying that it has a record contract signed by Adam on Feb. 12, 2008. If this is true, he probably wasn't out of the contract by the time he tried out for Idol in the summer of 2008, meaning he violated the terms Idol sets forth for the show's contestants (you can't have a current recording contract). So it's pretty obvious to assume why his old label is mad: Adam signed a contract with them, he decided it wasn't good enough for him, and he probably tried to get out of it by going on Idol.
We'll keep you updated on the drama, because watching Adam sqiurm over the old tracks is pretty funny. He recorded them one year ago, yet they now don't reflect the music he is currently working on? That's called being a sell out, Adam. If he did sign a contract with Hi Fi, then they have every right to release his music. Guess we'll see if the contract materializes soon.
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