Big Machine Label Group (Nashville’s finest record label) has teamed up with Cumulus Media to create a country music record label & live events business known as “Nash Icons”.
The new Nashville dream team!
Scott Borchetta (Big Machine president/CEO) is on the hunt for big country stars to sign and word on the street is…he’s looking at Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, and the next comeback king: Garth Brooks!
Faith, Alan, Shania, & Garth are a great place to start! 😀
I’m going to freak out if Garth Brooks gets back on the radio! That man was my music hero growing up! I broke many a plastic guitar string as a kid jamming out with Mr. Brooks!
#MyGuitarHero
Lew Dickey (Cumulus CEO) said: “I would look for Scott to make an announcement in the next 30 days.”
#ThanksLew
Lew went on to say: “It’s not that 35 to 54 year olds don’t like the hits. They just miss the biggest country artists of the last two decades, who are still recording and touring but not getting enough exposure today.”
I guess I can understand what he’s saying. Country is ruled by Taylor Swift, Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, and Hunter Hayes.
Taylor Swift is of course the most known artist signed to Big Machine! Not to mention the top earner in music for the 2013 fiscal year. ($39,699,575.60)
#LaughingAllTheWayToTheBank
And I hear a Nash Icons tour is in the works for next summer! Now don’t get me wrong, but is Scott trying to turn Nashville into Las Vegas with performances from legacy acts?!
I think he’s a genius! 😀
Country music fans are the most loyal fans in the whole wide world and I’m positive that the response to a resurgence of legendary country acts is something that would be very successful!
I know Scott is tight-lipped right now but Lew from Cumulus is spilling the beans! I can’t blame him! This is great news for Big Machine and for country music!
I’ll be honest with you…I never saw this one coming:
How exactly did some girl on the long list of girls Lorde’s thrown shade at, become Lorde’s best friend???
Back in September of last year, Lorde went absolutely bananas and started throwing more shade than the Real Housewives of Atlanta!
Lorde had this to say about Taylor Swift: “Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don’t think it’s breeding anything good in young girls.”
I don’t really understand why she felt the need to say that about Taylor. I don’t think she comes off as “flawless”. She’s just a sweet, country girl with a big heart.
Anyways you can go ahead and look up all the other people she read into last year but I want to add this quote…
Don’t throw shade on Queen Bey, Lorde! Yonce will have you terminated from pop music! I don’t know any other artist who could have bootylicious and serfbort added to Webster’s dictionary…it’s only a few days before serfbort makes it in there!
So basically I had the weird feeling that Taylor Swift reached out to Lorde back in December when she had a garden birthday party in Australia while she was on tour there. She had all these Instagram photos with Lorde attached to her hip and it seemed like Lorde’s disdain for Taylor had gone out the window.
So that was back in December and the hottest music news I could find on a Monday is that T Swift and Lorde went shopping together in Brentwood, California this weekend. Not kidding you people HAHA This is the best story of today 😀
So yesterday, Lorde and Taylor…not the department store…
went on a shopping spree in Cali! They hit up trendy stores like Rag & Bone and Free People and helped each other pick out clothes. Oh, to be a fly on the wall!
So it just so happens that on their outing…they met Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka!
Again…I don’t watch much TV, but I know some of you are freaking out right now 😀
Here’s a pic of them shopping together in LA…
And then either earlier or later in the day…not sure because they didn’t text me! lol
In recent music news, Lorde spoke with Capital FM radio, and hinted a potential duet with her bestie TSwizzle…
“Yeah we are different, but I think the cool thing about Taylor is she is pretty willing to go a lot of places with music.”
“I think that last record Red in particular, everyone was like ‘Whoa’, a lot of ground has been covered, and I think with an artist like her, the sky is the limit.”
Now that is some really sweet stuff coming from the Royals singer!
In celebration of these besties I want to post my favorite songs from them…
Of course Royals is the best from Lorde so far! That song sent the world in a frenzy and got her a publishing deal for 2.5 million dollars! Lorde was 16 when she was introduced just to remind you…she is now 17 and she hails from New Zealand.
As for Taylor…this song/performance is my favorite…
Red is such an incredibly written song! Well done Taylor. Well done!!!
Taylor moved to Nashville at the age of 14 in hopes to make it in country music. In 2005, at an industry showcase at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, Taylor caught the attention of Scott Borchetta. Scott was a DreamWorks Records executive and was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine Records. Taylor became one of the first artist’s signed to Big Machine. She released her first album Taylor Swift in October 2006 and the rest is history. She is now 24 years old and has been ranked as one of the best selling artists of all-time by Forbes and is worth over $220 million! Not too shabby! 😀
So Lorde and Taylor seem to be best friends now and I’m okay with it! Lorde could learn a thing or two from Taylor about the music business since she is so new to the scene.
Looking forward to a collaboration one day soon!!!
The new Nashville dream team!
Faith, Alan, Shania, & Garth are a great place to start! 😀
#MyGuitarHero
#ThanksLew
I think he’s a genius! 😀
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