[PieterCasparzen]

When people like Ashley Simpson and Paris Hilton are putting out albums (while people who are actually talented get passed right over), you know the music industry is total garbage. With computer technology being what it is, they could make Fran Drescher’s laugh sound good (or at least passable).

It’s like Hollywood, the way in is to be related to somebody who is already in. If you don’t know somebody, forget it. 20 years ago, a person could get in on an audition (like Bruce Willis). Today, forget it.

Well, by "know somebody", you're meaning climb the "arts" social set, indicate an enormous desire to prostitute oneself for a career, and complete submission to the dictates of the left-wing intelligentsia. That seems to be the starting point for a career in "the arts", as well as a totalitarian state. I agree.

I guess one starts out at parties, then works one's way up from there. If completely tone deaf, then go for acting or comedy.

[A_perfect_lady]

If you can hook someone up with some cocaine, too, that’s an in. A lot of these folks won’t work with anyone they haven’t snorted coke with.