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Big Jim,

You have a bad habit of the 'ol 'bait and switch'...

You make over-generalized, over-the-top, caustic statements
and then when you are cornered, you "switch" and say you were talking about something else.

You said "I bet Taylor Swift could NOT get signed if she sent anonymous recordings, therefore, this proves my point, that it's not what you know, but who you know."

Then when cornered with your bad logic, you switched, and said you were talking about that famous songwriter who sent in anonymous demos, and got turned down over and over, and then when you were asked who this was you said, "I'm not going to name drop"

Then switched again and said, "it doesn't matter, Taylor Swift is just an example..."

And now you say SINGLES, but ORIGINALLY, you said this:

Fact. The vast majority of the record buying public are teenagers to early twenties. They are generally easily led and subject to fads fashions and peer pressure. They will buy almost anything and generally cannot look at things objectively.


And now you "switch"...and say that "the vast majority of the record buying public are teenagers to early twenties"...and were basing this on SINGLES SALES, ONLY??

Jim, I agree with much of what you say, and simply DON'T LIKE the "way" you choose to say it. You seem to like to "put down" the person you are addressing, and you are probably the greatest guy, to know, in person, but honestly, do you think others like being "put in their place" all the time? And I'm not talking about your facts, Jim, but about your tone of voice. It can be very patronizing and condescending.

Example:

Obviously you have never had teenage kids if you say that kids are well versed in music tastes and can make their own minds up rationally without peer pressure.

Maybe you don't see it, Jim, but that is EXTREMELY patronizing.

So maybe if we all could just learn to talk to each other without all the alpha male breast beating, we'd hear each other, and then we could move on to something else, you know?

I apologize for my own "patronizing talk" with you. I am not immune...just...it's easier to see in others, than in yourself...I apologize if I have talked to you in such a way, and hope we can move on.

Mike