Another one bites the dust

And another one gone, and another one gone

Another one bites the dust….

Yes, you can hear me like crone that Queen song when I bump into artists
or industry professionals that play the headless chicken game. This phrase was invented
by an intern many years ago around the behavior of a couple of artists that had screw him over.

“They just run around like headless chicken screwing everyone or
screwing each other” he screamed in frustration. And the whole office just laughs
out loud.

We all knew what he meant; we all knew the behavior he was trying to
set words on. After that, it became the headless chicken game.

So, what it is when a person just runs around and try to use everyone they
meet as a steppingstone. At the same time, they try to be friends with everyone.
They don’t understand that a lot in this business is about trust and network
and friendships. So try to climb the ladder on several different places will be
the end result that everything crashes down.

I just bumped into a fresh case of this. A person that I invited to my
former festival. This person really doesn’t have anything in the industry to
brag about. I merely just gave the person a chance. As soon they got into the
festival the person just went for the CEO and started to just groom him.
Thinking that the higher up you are the better it is. The problem here is that the
CEO is as bright and good as Basil Fawlty. Of course, with that when we left
the festival, we took all network with me and just left the person with the
CEO. Suddenly all the opportunities that this person usually got were gone.

So, what to do? Well then, the person runs to the next one asking for
favors. And this one thought it was ok since the person was in my network. Not
long after they realized that this person had gone above them and was now
grooming their sponsor. That lead of course them coming back to me asking about
the loyalty of this person. I just told them what had happened, and they realized
it was not good to have this person in their network.

All doors closed at the same time. The person was suddenly banned from quite
much and really didn’t understand why or how.

Same with an artist that was trying to have a manager. As soon the
manager gave him a contact, he just grabbed the contact and tried to squeeze the
new contact to be him, the new manager. He then did the mistake by playing on the club
that the old manager booked of course making the new manager kind of pissed off.
Of course, the audience that the artist promised to the old manager was the work of
the new manger that really didn’t want to promote the old mangers club. The artist
just saw it as another gig. In reality, he pissed off both mangers and the career
was kind of over.

No, you shouldn’t run around like a headless chicken and try every opportunity
there is. Quite many carers both for artist and industry people have gone down
the drain because of that. Don’t forget who brought you in.