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Commentary on the above reply......

Look at us, we write our asses off trying to come up with what we would like to consider as talented and honest lyrics, but our works don't fit someone else's idea of commercially viable or potentially successful.

Yes, it is true that our lyrics are sometimes a representation of one's angers and frustrations, and actually give a voice and a sort of proxy venue in order to release said emotional overload, but where does that leave us, the artists, when we are just shoved to the slush piles?

I cannot help but admire how well one of our own, Priscilla Hernandez, has done for herself in the face of overwhelming odds in Barcelona, Spain.
As I am aware, there is no Music Row a few blocks down the street in Barcelona, and yet she has achieved what so many of us just dream about.

From posting her works on the Muse a long time ago, just a dreamer, like all of us, to working at a pet store in order to raise funds to put towards releasing her debut album.
One of the animals bit her hand, and the owner of the store would cop to his responsibility towards her and the injury.

There is a pic on her website with bandaging on her hand from that incident.

I have chatted with some of her friends on the chatbox at nuevasmusicas.org, and have been told repeatedly how difficult it really is to make any kind of success in the music business there in Spain.

She turned down major and minor label deals in order to hold out and go completely and entirely indie, under her own personal label.

The analogy here is, if Pris can do what she has done in her own very difficult environment, then I honestly believe that we in America and beyond, can create a venue that has nothing whatsoever to do with Music Row's megacoporations.

The road will be long and rough, I understand that, but if we do not take it upon ourselves to make this happen, then no one else will do it for us, especially not Sony/BMG, MCA, or the other corporate monsters........

We here at JPF are a presence all our own, and somehow, with all of us sittin' here..............
I don't know exactly how it can be done, but I do know that here's enough of us around that we can get our heads together and figure it out.

WE CAN DO IT ALL BY OURSELVES, BECAUSE WE HAVE POWER IN NUMBERS, AND BECAUSE WE HAVE TALENT AND TENACITY.

That is, unless I'm horribly mistaken......