What will YOU do if your pop career fails?

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Electric Sound of Jim, Ian Spack and Kate, I expect you to contribute. Will you follow in Marcello's footsteps?

Me, I will kill myself.

― chrys sallys, Sunday, 17 November 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

try to break into the art scene

― doorag, Sunday, 17 November 2002 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

since i wouldn't believe in nothin, i'd go to lawschool.

alternately: earth, wind, and fire cover band to play seattle brewpubs.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 17 November 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

subsistence farming!

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Sunday, 17 November 2002 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

deny everything.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 17 November 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Sell gourmet salmon.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Marry a rockstar.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to run off with James Blount.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

become a prostitute on santa monica blvd. obv

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I can see myself walking the streets, bedraggled and wild eyed, screaming "I used to be in a band you know" to anyone who looked in my direction.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 17 November 2002 23:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a pop career?

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Sunday, 17 November 2002 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have anything approaching a pop career but I do have a label/fanzine/clubnight in the offing. This will certainly fail and when it does I want to be Patrick Bateman but without the killing. And maybe a wife. Yeah, I'd like a wife.

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 18 November 2002 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I can see myself walking the streets, bedraggled and wild eyed, screaming "I used to be in a band you know" to anyone who looked in my direction.

I remember boarding a no. 35 bus in Brixton some time in the early 1980s and sitting down next to a man who peered at the snare drum (in case) I was carrying and said something like: 'do you need a guitarist? I used to be in a band...you might have heard of them...we were called the Four Pennies'. I said something polite and non-committal in response but was thinking to myself 'keep away from me you weird middle-aged man'. Then one day you realise you've become something similar, except not quite you understand.

― David (David), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The fact that I am 43, have a horrible voice and no musical skill or expertise or sex appeal, and am making no efforts to ever write or make any music hasn't dimmed my hopes of becoming a pop star any day now.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Shoot Andy Warhol.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Shrivel into a pile of ashes naturally. Everyday I wonder how kidding I am when I say this.

― Honda (Honda), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose I'm a failed popstar. I was thinking of becoming a serial killer, starting with everyone that's been unkind to me, but oh, the agony of choice...

― Dickon Edwards (Dickon Edwards), Monday, 18 November 2002 03:12 (twenty-three years ago)

appear in honcho shot by bruce le bruce, sing bad covers of chuck beery and remake myself for the la nostalgia circuit.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 18 November 2002 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

writer / historian / smallholder / traveller / eccentric

enough to be getting on with, but the songwriting and the ideas are what consume me at the moment. I honestly don't care if it fails; at least I'll have let the public know about my creativity (at least there is a definite interest in some of my theories and concepts right now - five years ago I would have been doomed from the start).

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, 18 November 2002 04:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"I see your petrified skull, labeled and resting a shelf somehwere"

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 18 November 2002 04:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Aaron, I do sometimes worry that that might be my skull, well before my time comes. not being able to bring oneself to care about anything other than songwriting has that effect.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, 18 November 2002 05:48 (twenty-three years ago)

In 20 years after my death I shall be worshipped as a legend. Such is "our" fate.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Monday, 18 November 2002 06:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to law school. Now I've decided to try the pop career again.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 18 November 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

1. become a full-time dreamer
2. work with animals
3. work in a chapeau shop of some sort

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 18 November 2002 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

1. open up a small record/ odd things shop and live above it; have a cat that lives in the shop
2. explore exotic lands
3. become a full-time dreamer like Carsmile
4. become a mentor for the next generation of failing pop stars
5. publish my diaries right before my death
6. become one of those celebrities associated with rock stars & artists but nobody really knows why because they aren't one themselves
7. become a totally obsessive fan of another pop band and follow them around
8. work in a small guitar store and covet all the merchandise
9. put out a 'best of' even though I never really released an album on a label and hope someone discovers it and thinks it has Nuggets potential
10. make babies (not sure about this one)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 November 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I would have one last big alcohol/drug bash, go bankrupt, nearly die, become reformed, and then appear in numerous Vh1 specials and shows.

― liz! (liz!), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

i quote only from the book of Tap Ms McLusky ;)

St Hubbins
Smalls
Tuffnell

(although i fear i may have got the Smalls one wrong and it's working with kids or summat)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

work as a PR for a music company.
appear in the news as the official representative of the musicians' collective.
(no, i wouldn't do this. please, don't let me do this. ever)

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Become a private darts tutor.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

read adorno.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

aha it is indeed work with children (scroll to v v bottom)

(haha, big bottom!!!)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Go and live on the moon and laugh at Lance B*ss

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 18 November 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

haha julio otm - my table is suddenly heavy-laden with books i have no business trying to understand. "i'm thinking of going to school finally" = the dream is over.

― jones (actual), Monday, 18 November 2002 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Theater! - John Lovitz style flourish

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

it already did ...and that's when tings started to get interesting

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 02:32 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

Oh, the wonders of Random.

Someone asked me a question and I never replied.

The answer is plain: become a Pop Svengali. It's clearly the way forward.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

overdose

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

-- Ian SPACK

Label - EH EHH
Fanzine - EH EHH
Clubnight - ding!
Wife - ding! (sortof)

― Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, establish KULT! I will join!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

i became a sound engineer so i can live vicariously through others

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Is it wrong not to want a career?? You know, just have an okay job that levels out with not much responsibility? Without really great renumeration?

Obviously, I know the answer, but it's hard to convince the world.

― jel --, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

I have a friend who used to go on at me about how I didn't have any ambition and I should have some, and I pointed out to her that my ambition is to read a lot of books and live by the sea and have a job that doesn't hassle me much. And, like any ambitious person, I have things I'm prepared to give up in order for that to happen. Money, for one thing.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Cool! That's a worthy ambition!!

― jel --, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

jel do you mean careers in general or pop careers as this thread has stated?

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, careers in general!

I'm still certain of my pop career success, even though I'm approaching Pollard age.

― jel --, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the Pop Svengali thing is working out OK.

The thing I never actually considered was... sell out, go and work in banking, use my mathematical skillz for EVIL and earn shed-loads of cash. I suppose that's kind of working out OK, too.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

What pop career?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

What will YOU do if your pop career fails?

I'm gonna have some fun!!

― Mark G, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Design handbags.

― en i see kay, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

i still like my original answer.

― get bent, Monday, 26 February 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

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