At 03:19 PM 10/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
>So then comes the question of fans' expectations. Are the artists
>picking their tunes for the second album to please the fans? The record
>labels? Themselves? Chopping down a messful of songs into enough tunes
>to fit an album can be a rather daunting task. And if your second album
>doesn't do well as the first, then your label will start to wonder if
>you are a "one-hit wonder."
this is an age-old problem: artists spends years honing their craft,
writing and performing their songs and make a tremendous debut - then,
they're contractually obligated to follow up with a second release the
following year...the pressure is enormous and the results are often
disappointing, which is why many artists don't really come into their own
until their third or fourth albums, if at all.
David
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