{"id":190,"date":"2018-03-11T20:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T00:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/?p=190"},"modified":"2018-03-11T20:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T00:22:31","slug":"chance-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/third-blog\/chance-the-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artists in the music industry, while not shackled to signing a deal by just one singular, hegemonic record label, are constrained by the fact that they must be signed <em>somewhere <\/em>in order to have success. Although these record labels give these artists a platform to universally sell their music, they take a healthy portion of profits while also having an influential hand\u2014if not the most influential\u2014in the actual creative process of making music. In essence, most artists end up feeling trapped. They are torn between wanting to maintain complete creative autonomy over their own music, and wanting to be signed to a label in order to increase their chances at having monetary\/billboard success. This is a common dilemma for artists in the music game, and the problem is amplified even more for up-and-coming stars, who labels tend to exploit due to their lack of experience and established fan base.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, one musician is challenging this hegemonic process by electing to remain independent from record labels altogether. Chance the Rapper is one of the biggest names in the music industry today, and the fact that he is so popular grants him an immense amount of influence. He has turned down multiple offers from different labels throughout the years, choosing to maintain in control of his own music and branding. He has made multiple references to this decision in his songs, stating, \u201clabels told me to my face that they own my friends.\u201d This reference, along with others, has stirred up some backlash from certain labels, as some of them have refused to allow Chance work with some of their artists (thus only further validating the above line). While this method of climbing the music ranks is definitely unorthodox, Chance\u2019s proving that it is in fact possible could lead other artists to attempt to remain independent in the future, which may lead to the fall of these hegemonic industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists in the music industry, while not shackled to signing a deal by just one singular, hegemonic record label, are constrained by the fact that they must be signed somewhere in order to have success. Although these record labels give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/third-blog\/chance-the-independent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}