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...Martin and writing-producing partner Rami use the same standards when they apply the musical cosmetics - mixing, polishing and layering vocals and instrumentation. "It's sick," says Martin Dodd, a longtime friend and head of A.-and-R. for record label Zomba Europe. "They'll stay up literally for three days just to get a drum sound right." Even then, songs don't always turn out as planned. With the mixing of Oops! ... I Did It Again, "after a week, Rami and I realized it sounded like shit," he says. "It didn't groove." So they scrapped it and went...
...better to deliver that message--and harder to pin a label on--than a man who preached at the National Prayer Breakfast and voted against John Ashcroft the very same day? Edwards even has an everyman story on his side. The son of a millworker, he married his law-school sweetheart and drives his small children to the Senate day-care center--the first Senator in the staff's memory to put his children in the facility along with those of Senate employees...
...through TV or film," says David Wolin, a music-industry veteran who takes the classes. "No one is doing what David's doing. He has sort of grown at the pace he's been comfortable with. He's like a commercial boom waiting to hit. His numbers, small by label standards, are astonishing if you consider he's doing this all himself...
...rich with wine snobs, but there is a niche of connoisseurship still underpopulated: the anti-snob. The industry is now catering to the downmarket drinker. Need to know about price or what to drink with steak or fish? No need to consult a guide; just look at the label. And you won't strain your budget. All these wines are under...
...Whom, then, will the artists complain to? They're still the injured party - even label babies like Britney Spears have a moral claim on the music they make - but next time, instead of scolding their own fans, the next Metallica might want to take their beef to the record companies themselves...