Survival Of A Rock Star

The music business in today's global landscape has forced all artists to keep up with their good works or styles in order to sell themselves to stardom. We have seen new faces rushing and sweeping the old ones every single day. It is not solely a matter of artistic expression or trendy tunes but involves a timely scheduled single release, an adequate radio station airplay, cool music videos, appropriate marketing campaigns, rocking concert tours, constant appearance on the news, and such.

Here's a little survival guide to becoming a stick-in-the-umm... ear rock star:
1. First, you have to look good all the time (on screen or on stage). A hyperactively-trend-conscious-and-perhaps-gender-bended personal stylist can help you on this.
2. Besides your look, you've got to have a hip mixer and cool producer with you every album.
3. You have to fetch a f**king great motion graphic designer for you music video.
4. It is compulsory for you to release new singles every year or your fans are forgetting you real fast.
5. Also find some time to appear on a popular and highest-rating talk show programmes as many as possible. Don't forget to bring fake tears in case you have to retell your past tear-sobbing soap-opera story (or stories) and be surprised every time a long-time-you-can't-even-remember friend shows up (expectedly, of course) chit-chatting about your nasty habits or jokes about you.
6. Most of new faces are becoming flattered, self-deplacent and ruining their future by taking drugs and party too much. So, get together with yourself.

To be continued...