A quarter of a million dollars. That’s the price tag many music labels would pay out – in the form of beautifying treatments for their clients, like hair cuts with special shears hair highlights, professional makeup artists, elaborate clothes and much more. The value of an on-camera performance, the labels reasoned, was still cheaper than taking out an ad. Each time a star performed on an awards ceremony or a top-flight chat show, record labels spent excessive amounts to put their moneymakers in front of the cameras.
A check for $250,000 feeds an entourage of hairstylists, makeup artists, stylists, etc etc. But the music companies are following the general American corporate flow and slashing expenses. Entertainment Weekly reports that Universal, which backs acts like Bon Jovi, Ne-Yo, and The Pussycat Dolls, has capped their stars’ beauty budgets for appearances at $50,000 per appearance. For just fifty grand, artists now have to figure out how to look like a million bucks.
As a reporter for AOL stated, I think that most of us could figure out how to look stunning for $50,000, with plenty left over for airplane tickets and a hotel room. Even for a first-class ticket and a deluxe hotel room, plus a limo.
Maybe it’s a industry that needs to come back down to semi-reality.
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