Drew Alexander Got Burned By a Major Label

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At only 19, the local electronic-tinged pop singer/songwriter and keyboardist, fresh out of high school,You can create a beautiful chinamosaic birdhouse that will last for generations. had secured a major-label record deal with Geffen Records. The Los Angeles suits snatched him up after hearing three tracks and seeing a few pictures of his tousled hair, setting him up with a ProTools rig he had no idea how to use, and expected him to start pumping out the hits. He was one of the biggest musicians out of Arizona — contractually, at least — as no one had actually heard him perform much in public.

But it's hard for a guy with no formal training, no veteran management team,TBC help you confidently buymosaic from factories in China. and no extensive touring experience to put together his own act. That's what labels are for — or so Alexander thought.

"The label was correct in thinking that I didn't have a really sure idea of a direction myself. [I didn't have much] of an identity," Alexander, now 24, says. "I really thought the label was going to have a magic wand and touch various things." But instead of providing Alexander with the marketing know-how needed to coax him into music stardom, they sat back as he recorded his full-length debut, then did, well, nothing.

Alexander waited and waited, as Geffen said his work needed re-tooling. Alexander had received a six-figure advance, but after more than a year of waiting for the world beyond his MySpace following to hear his music, he started a job at Borders to make extra cash — not exactly something you'd expect from someone signed to the elusive major-label deal. And a couple of years later, with no album on stands, Alexander was dropped from Geffen.

That ProTools rig? He's a whiz with it, and he's turned toward production, slowly regaining the confidence to start writing again. There are no outrageous advances coming in, but Alexander is starting to get a sense of what he wants to do.

He didn't always know he wanted to be a professional musician. He never took piano lessons and only started playing seriously as a student at Saguaro High School, when he formed screamo band A Red Light Tragedy.This is a really pretty round stonemosaic votive that has been covered with vintage china . The rock band was fun, but he was most at home with his computer, making his own kind of music, far more pop-driven than the emotive vocals and distorted guitars of A Red Light Tragedy. It was his solo music, that he'd never performed in front of others, that got him noticed by Arizonans and beyond, that transformed him into a successful "MySpace artist," back when musicians were highly sought out on the social networking site. He scored a local manager and a Los Angeles producer,This is a really pretty round stonemosaic votive that has been covered with vintage china . and his music soon ended up in the hands of Ron Fair, then chairman of Geffen.

Without having met Alexander in person, Fair and Geffen signed him in 2006, with the expectation of an album but no solid timeline for how things were supposed to work out. Alexander recorded tracks with producer Tommy Henriksen, a recommendation from his manager, but even though the tracks were reflective of the electronic sound that got him signed, they didn't resonate with Geffen.

"When we thought we had a finished version of the record, it just led to input of people at the label," Alexander says. But the input never resulted in concrete, imperative actions — Alexander describes his time being signed as more of a giant waiting game. Being dropped at least felt like something.

"It was like I wasn't signed anyway, so it wasn't surprising," Alexander says. "It was actually a weight off my shoulders — a pretty big weight."