I get Katy's frustration.

She was asked what her worst job was and had to answer something.

When she worked there it was a time in her life when she was trying to get her career going. She thought she had talent, She believed in herself, she'd had some success as a christian singer but her pop career hadn't gotten going so she had to do something. I imagine most of what Taxi screeners hear is pretty awful. Just as MAB has talked about going to open mics around Nashville, he's written very rarely does he hear a great song, most of the time it's the same stuff over and over.

There are so many talented people in Nashville, LA & New York who's careers never get off the ground. Unless the wanna be star, their spouse or their parents are wealthy they have to get a job.


Originally Posted by Ande Rasmussen

Below is the text from an article where she mentions Taxi

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Katy Perry on the July 2009 cover of Seventeen magazine.

On her worst job she ever had:
“I worked at this place called Taxi, Taxi Music, where I would sit with headphones and a computer, and I would listen to music that people would send in from all around the country so they could get a critique on it and how to make it in the music industry. So you have to imagine how depressed I was after not making it in LA after five years, knowing everyone in the music industry couldn’t get a break, and sitting in this cubicle, listening to the worst music I’ve ever heard. I would tell these people ‘Well you have to change these chords’ or ‘This is how you contact a record label.’ And I was just like, I cannot give these people hope. I had no hope [myself.]”



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