The difference here Roger is she's performing her own original material.

This vid is from 2013 and was posted here back then and a similar discussion happened. What I get from this is again, the difference in generational culture. She's young, we're old. It's all about social media. Young people are all over social media while us older folks hardly understand where to start with it. Twitter is unbelievably powerful and I don't use it at all.

You're talking about songwriters who are not performers and make very valid points about the music biz but that really has little to do with what she's talking about. What she did is what I've written about many times. To make it in the modern musical world, you write your own stuff, perform it yourself and use social media do start and grow your own personal fan base. She is the poster child for how young people with no connections in the business itself control their own destiny.

It's not just having a Facebook page where you post concert dates and such, no it's you writing about all kinds of personal stuff, political stuff, making comments about virtually anything and everything and eventually you wind up with thousands and thousands of like minded people who follow you and read and like everything you say and write. And oh by the way you happen to write and perform music too.

Putting everything you are, everything you think about, telling millions of total strangers all about yourself down to the deepest personal level is completely alien to us older folks way of thinking but this is what young people do every day.

Bob

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