Child Stars via YouTube – A New Trend to Discovering New Talent?
A long time ago Citytv launched “Speaker’s Corner”. Anybody could stop by and verbally express their opinion about anything. Some people were actually singing, while hoping to get noticed and make it big in the music business. And YES…BINGO! The band “Barenaked Ladies” were noticed, picked up by music industry professionals and then the band made a very significant mark, becoming icons in the music industry to date. Sounds like a fairy tale, huh? But that happened and it’s real. However, at that time it was quite sensational. Today, we all own computers and we all can easily and quickly access YouTube. In a manner of speaking, it is a “Speaker’s Corner”, but in the convenience of our own home or at our desk at work. With that to be available, the well known manager,Scooter Braun was surfing the internet and YouTube in particular, when he discovered a young boy who is bass guitar lessons now the well known artist, Justin Bieber. The “Biebermania” took off and along this premise two young girls (Maria Lourdes Aragon of Winnepeg and Heather Russell of Toronto, Canada) were recently discovered. Maria was discovered by Lady Gaga, who was fascinated by the little girl performing her song “Born This Way” and Heather, outright got a record deal with none other than the former American Idol judge, Simon Cowell. This modern technology already helped a great deal to launch the now huge teenage artist, Justin Bieber, and those two girls are definitely along their way to stardom as well. In my opinion, it’s absolutely amazing, as the music business for the last at least 20 years became nothing but a factory of artificially manufactured stars. Those so-called “stars” were mainly picked by their looks, ages, right connections, and the money put behind their careers.