Welcome to Medi8tor - An Entertainment Business blog that puts PEOPLE first.

Hello and Welcome to Medi8tor!

This blog is dedicated to the topic of Fame Management. Fame Management consists of helping individuals in arts and entertainment adjust to the rapid transitions in their personal life, due to the notoriety of their professional life and persona.

The goal of this forum is to help up and coming artist manage the pressures and responsibilities of being a public figure, because handling life and fame is a balancing act.

The hope is that this blog will give artist the necessary tools to establish an internal control system to help maintain a healthy outlook on their career path, and provide assistance in avoiding the pitfalls of fortune and fame.

This blog is designed to target artist who are in the early or transitional phases of their careers, but have diligently worked on their own artistic development. These are artist who have a consistent body of work in their particular art form, have a strong fan base that is growing rapidly, and find that their notoriety, reputation, or physical visibility is growing rapidly due to their work or participation in a particular project.

While the majority of this blog will be informational, it will also set the stage for a dialogue and possibly a debate. Throughout the entertainment industry, artists are often treated like products in a manufacturing warehouse. Business Entertainment tycoons regard artist as products that can be easily replaced and remanufactured. Executives or “the suits” expect artist to be prim, polished, and ready to sell commercially from the very beginning, which is why studios and record labels no longer invest in artist development programs. Developing artist takes time, and money which can greatly affect bottom line profitability This business model creates anxiety for young or undiscovered talent who believe they have only one shot at their dream, and puts stress on established artist to create consecutive hits or else run the risk of being replaced by a newcomer.

This type of mentality is fear based and gives the industry license to dispose of artist as if they were discarded trash. This is a shameful and potentially damaging practice because many artists have given up their entire lives to pursue a dream. Many executives fail to realize the importance of artist as the foundational reason that entertainment exists, and the reason that executives are employed. This type of mentality runs the risk of damaging the lives of individuals, and giving the industry a reputation that could potentially lead to artist rejecting participation in the industry at all.

Therefore my hope is that the posts and discussions on this blog will begin a new mentality of conducting business in entertainment; a mentality that is people oriented. A mentality that allows people to thrive and grow, which in return will allow people (artist) to produce more lucrative content. Medi8tor is meant to stress the importance of art as the product in entertainment, not the people in art (artist) as the products.

I am so pleased that you have decided to join me here on the Medi8tor blog; please be sure to come back frequently, as we begin this grass roots movement to revolutionize the industry through the age-old adage of putting people first.

Lastly, I will leave you with thoughts to mull over until next time. Our next post will explore the difference between “Fame” vs. “Personhood.”

Fame is defined as having a favorable reputation or widespread influence amongst the masses.

Personhood is defined as the act or state of being a person. Often times when an artist rises to a certain level of fame, their personhood suffers or can get lost as a result. This is rather strange because an artists’ personhood is ultimately tied to their level of fame. Fame can either deify or vilify an artist, and the distinction between the two is concluded based on an artists’ character or personhood.

Next time we will compare and contrast the similarities, differences, contradictions, compromise, and controversy of fame vs. personhood.

Thank you for your time, and I hope to connect with you again in our next post.




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