THE POP STAR AS BUSINESSPERSON

Going "pop" is usually no accident.

Very few true artists can think as clearly about business as they do art. Many think they can, but very few do. It’s a delusion of this era that any and everybody excels at both. I use “true artist” to separate them from those who do art, have facility with music, words or images, but whose chief focus is to stack chips and get famous. These people tend…