LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND... (DISAPPEARS)

It's not often you can point to something on the Fox News website and say it's an amusing and worthwhile read, but their whatever happened to Tommy Mottola article is quite a hoot; it's a timely reminder that the people who are thought of as being so good at the music industry generally just happen to be at the top of a lucky company with a massive advertising budget rather than, actually, any good at things.

Mottola was canned by Sony back in the early days of 2003, but was considered to be such a great figure that he was picked up by Universal to reinvigorate Casablanca Records. Gossips reckon that he was given USD50million by the major to do the business.

50 Million - you have sue an awful lot of teenage girls to make that sort of cash; you'd expect to see some returns.

Since then? There has been the less-than-staggering Lindsay Lohan sidecareer (so low-profile, every time we do something about her we just check on Google that she has made records). And... erm, Brie Larson, apparently the only other artist they have, who managed to sell getting on for four thousand copies of her (or is Brie a boy's name?) debut album.

You couldn't pay for a nose for business like that - not unless you were a public-traded company that was playing with people's pensions, of course.

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