from throwing my hands up and turning to safer pursuits with which I would be bored to death with. Nine to Five is a funny movie, but not of in- terest to me otherwise. I am totally not the desk jockey type. He also has my back financially. I wish everyone were that fortunate. I was bitching about all of this one day
and, sure enough, the next day he comes home from work and says he heard a show host talking about it on NPR. We have a sort of inside joke about NPR, because so often I do a topic on Rockin’ Your Health and they follow suit a few weeks later. It’s almost like they’re listening to me… Apparently out of all the listeners for this particular show, only about two percent respond! Overall NPR has 37.7 million listeners, according to the Nielsen Audio Fall 2017 Rating. I have to wonder what return they see on that investment if this poor guy only gets two percent of his audi- ence to let him know if they like anything he’s doing.
I would love to know if you have overcome
seems to be a sea of endless rip-off schemes. If you put your music on Spotify, you’re joining 20,000 artists per day, according to an Indie On The Move article I recently read. You’re lost in an instant. But of course, you can pay for more at- tention and then wait for your micro-pennies to pour in. You might get all excited to see that you’ve gotten 10,000 listens, but the $50 check doesn’t go very far among four people, and how much did you pay to get that $50? We plan to be the solution, but we actually
have to fight many musicians to give them free promotion. They too are victims of the same tun- nel-vision of the competition and survival model. Too many are having to do too much to get no- ticed, creating overload. People get narrowly fo- cused and shut out. There is too much competition. What I do know is that it can be over-
whelming to dive in and try to navigate. The plas- tic feel of it all is icky and defeats the purpose of an artist’s mission. The model is broken and needs to be fixed, but where to start? What to do? We think we have the answer and are bust-
ing our asses right there with you, to take the good and leave the bad for the betterment of us all. It’s exhausting, to say the least. Fortunately I have a husband who listens and tries to keep me
the feeling of giving your soul with little to no re- fill. If so, how? How do you decide when to cut bait and go home? It’s in our DNA to create. It has to come out. What would you do instead? Any- one? Anyone? Bueller? •
Electra (The Rock-n-Roll Health Chick) is an Inte- grative Health and Nutri- tion Consultant and Coach, specializing in the health of musicians. She is the co- creator and host of “Rockin’ Your Health,” which is heard on FM radio, is streaming on www.Elec-
traLandRadio.net and is archived at
www.OurHealthRevolution.net/radio. You can find her online at
ElectraLandRadio.net, on Face Book at ElectraLand Productions and Rockin’ Your Health Radio.
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