Sarah and Vic sit down with Management and A&R at Born & Raised Entertainment and TwentySeven Music Publishing Sarah Stickle to discuss:
- Finding your niche and using varied experience to your advantage
- The satisfaction of seeing things through start to finish, and celebrating your wins!
- Diversity in the industry and how it varies from location, genre, and area of the industry
- How underpaying songwriters is a feminist issue
- How gender roles and capitalism make it harder to create change
- Performative allyship - Are the changes we’re seeing long-term?
- Being a queer woman in the music industry
- The intersection of gender, race, and sexuality
- Advocating for your peers and creators, and helping others do the same
- The difference in community and creativity between Nashville and LA
- The importance of having peers and a team that fights for you
Notes:
Jason Bernard - https://variety.com/2018/music/news/pulse-music-group-jason-bernard-1203021768/
Kobalt - https://www.kobaltmusic.com/
Some of Sarah’s recent wins and artists/songs discussed:
- Signing Brian Brundage for management (Tai Verdes' "A-O-K", Rhys Lewis, Maddie Zahm)
- Cuts she helped to secure:
- 44Phantom ft. Machine Gun Kelly single "don't sleep, repeat"
- Hayley Kiyoko's "for the girls" - which was also featured in the new Netflix film Do Revenge
- Sofia Carson's "Loud"
- Procured the mix for Kane Brown's single "Grand" (mixed by Adam Hawkins)
- Ryan Daly - The new John Legend single "Wonder Woman", the forthcoming Fitz & The Tantrums album, and the current DNCE single
