When you work in the music industry and you are at a party or a gathering with people that don’t work in the industry and you say that you work in the industry it never goes wrong that someone asks, so do you work with some famous music, or is it artists that we know?

The question though is what is famous for this person. You don’t know what rock they have lived under or what hillbilly town they just escaped from? Or they have a lot of knowledge? Also, especially when you work in the industry you might work with artists that are on the way up that you think they should know about but that is never the case.

I have worked with all range of artists so you can’t really play the game with me. I can just tell some super names like Kiss or Dolly Parton and that would be the end of the discussion. Everybody knows them you think. Nope if you are with an older lady in 70: s she might never have heard about Kiss, Dolly Parton she had heard of but really don’t know any song. That happened last weekend. It also depends on where you are from. Every country has their own superstars that it seems like people just should know.

Long time ago I toured with Dee Dee Ramone from The Ramones. For some reason he really wanted homemade meatloaf, and we were passing my hometown so called my mom to cook one to get him in a good mode. Of course, my mom did a meatloaf and we stopped at my parent’s house and there Dee Dee and part of the band had meatloaf. My mom was not that impressed that Dee Dee Ramone dined in her kitchen. I was more struck by the surreal situation. For her it was just some friends of mine that was Americans and wanted a meal.

Later she was in a theatre group with some younger kids. One had a Ramones t-shirt and she comment that one of the Ramones had dined at her place, she didn’t remember which one though. The kids didn’t believe her. They were no way that a Ramone had dined in her kitchen. In the end, she had to call me and talk to the kids to verify that one of the biggest Rock’n’roll legends had been there for a piece of meatloaf. The kids were just baffled that she didn’t know more who it was.

At the same time. I was in a studio in Stockholm with Björn Skifs. Now 99% from outside Sweden says who? He is the lead singer in Blue Swede that had a big hit with “Hooked on a feeling”. I guess many say what song? Okay latest it was used was in Guardian of the galaxy movie. Now some people know it if they hear it. So Björn became after that a superstar in Sweden and one of mom’s biggest heroes. After explaining about Dee Dee Ramone I send her a picture with me and Björn Skifs to her. Now she was really starstruck and the kids had no clue what she was talking about Björn Skifs.

All this just make me tell people when they ask that question if I work with someone famous, What is famous? Second of all working with. Have I meet them, yes, was I important for their career, probably no.

In today world also it’s impossible to say where you are famous. I guy died the other day that was famous for the laughing meme and inside Twitch he is huge. Never seen it before. Same with the tv show in Sweden that have the most famous Swedish artist just announced the line-up and half I had no clue who they are. And I work in the music industry.

Many artists I just know, but not for their music just for the gossip that goes around in the press. For real I can’t even sing a song with Kanye West. I can’t mention a song of Nikki Minaj. I know who they are but just from writing. But I can sing the whole song of Big & Rich “Six Foot Town”. Who is famous?

We are more and more put in a bubble, and you can be famous in that bubble. It’s no longer your fifteen minutes of fame. It’s your fifteen minutes of fame in the bubble.