Brava! We are all different! We all want different things! The squicky wheel gets the oil (or however that saying goes). Some people just don't want the oil! That doesn't make them more or less of a person....just DIFFERENT!
Sometimes I sit and mop about attention or gigs I haven't recieved, but then I think real hard about myself and the person who did succeed at getting hired, or getting more attention. And 9 times out of 10 its because I didn't go after it like the other person did. I'm a bit shy, I don't stick up for myself in certain situations and am embarrassed to ask for what I want. Its usually those times that I don't get what I want. I either have to accept that unless I'm more proactive I won't get what I want or be content with what I get.
Measha makes no qualms about going after what she wants. She works hard for it! She uses every opportunity to her advantage. In an Opera Canada interview I believe she even said that a lot of her media success has been because she hired a good publicist (Britney Spear's I believe). I bet half of you never even looked into getting a publicist in the first place? I know I sure didn't....but now that I see the success that Measha has brought to herself I realize that when I am vocally ready there are so many avenues and branches that I can take! And I find that exciting!
Once I read an interview with Joseph Volpe and he said not everyone like Angela Gheorghiu but we hire her because like it or not she always sells out and fills the seats....further proof of that is when you look that they've hired her to do Carmen this year! A soprano! But I know she will fill the seats and like it or not that is the bottom line!
We all have different opinions about certain singers but its usually only the really successful ones, or the ones that are in the media that we complain about. If Measha wasn't all over the press I'm sure people wouldn't bad mouth her as much as they do, but that doesn't mean that she would sing any differently. She'd probably have more fans because then we would consider here "a real opera singer" instead of an Opera Star obessessed with attention. Its sad that in this career the more successful you become the more bullshit you get from your fellow singers. We all want success, and we all want it in different ways, that doesn't make it right or wrong. Its DIFFERENT! And lets face it...being different is what gets you to the top no matter if the top for you is being a host on Canada AM or being content to be a career singer with a family and a home! In each case you get there because you've worked hard and you had something different to offer!
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