Lava Records CEO:I Almost Passed on Katy Perry

[yASSsss 35,510]

“So I met her at the Polo Lounge in LA. She walks in and sat down and I was like, ‘This girl’s a star.’ It was just obvious to me. She sat and opened her mouth and I was like she’s going places.”

She hadn’t “gone places” yet, but Flom knew there was something about her. “A real star walks and talks and wears clothes differently than other people do. My ‘spidey senses’ tell me that. She’s one of those people. Back then, she didn’t have a dime. She can still dress in a way that somebody else may dress and look like a normal schloob. But she lights it up. That’s how it started.”

“I got her music that she had made for Columbia,” he says, referring to unreleased recordings he did for that label. “And I went back to the office and played it for a bunch of my top people there. They were like ‘This f—ing sucks, this is terrible.’ The only one of the songs on the CD that became a hit was ‘Waking Up In Vegas.’ Even still, I loved it and everybody was like, ‘Please don’t sign this. We’re turning this company around, don’t weigh us down with this nonsense.’ I was like, ‘Maybe I’m wrong, I don’t know.'”

Then a month or so later I’m working out in the gym and I was listening to Katy in my headphones and I was like, ‘This is ridiculous, she’s great. I’m so dumb. How could I have slept on this?’ I always loved it, but I was listening to other people’s opinions and I was letting those sway me. So I called her up. She was doing a lot of nothing. I don’t think she had a car. She might have not even had a phone. I think I called her at work. She was working at a place called Taxi making $10 an hour. It’s a demo listening service. It’s a place where you can send in your demo and supposedly professionals will listen to it. That’s where she was working, so I called her there. I said, ‘I wanna sign you,’ and she said, ‘Great,’ and that’s how the whole thing started. That was about eight years ago. 2008 maybe.”

http://radio.com/2016/08/23/katy-perry-jason-flom/

 

[Saint Laurent 4,862]

Should have 

Spoiler

Just kidding lol

 

[yASSsss 35,510]

" I went back to the office and played it for a bunch of my top people there. They were like ‘This f—ing sucks, this is terrible"

this part had me dying  

[FATCAT 60,084]

‘Please don’t sign this. We’re turning this company around, don’t weigh us down with this nonsense.’

[Lona Delery 7,214]

1 minute ago, yASSsss said:

" I went back to the office and played it for a bunch of my top people there. They were like ‘This f—ing sucks, this is terrible"

this part had me dying  

I wont say anything cuz I dont want WPs

[PenelopesTaint 439]

Darn it, so close 

[Illuminati 15,922]

Yet they still released the album with those songs  

[littlepotter 75,147]

She listened to demos for a living?

[mic 1,415]

That's why she feels kinda random

[holy scheisse 22,275]

2 hours ago, littlepotter said:

She listened to demos for a living?

she was obvi trying to get a job in the music industry because she was an aspiring artist whats wrong with that

[littlepotter 75,147]

10 hours ago, holyscheisse said:

she was obvi trying to get a job in the music industry because she was an aspiring artist whats wrong with that

Whats wrong with that is that 1) she has a job judging demos when hers haven't been validated yet and 2) they said professionals

[The Child 18,997]

How things could have been different! 

[SlayGagaloo 16,152]

50 minutes ago, littlepotter said:

Whats wrong with that is that 1) she has a job judging demos when hers haven't been validated yet and 2) they said professionals

Are you saying she's not professional? 

Well 

[August Blue 8,566]

14 hours ago, yASSsss said:

so I called her there. I said, ‘I wanna sign you,’ and she said, 'Great'

Sounds she was like .. 

"Great  " 

[Blueskye 1,087]

14 hours ago, FATCAT said:

'Don’t weigh us down with this nonsense.'

This is how I feel everytime they compare Gaga and Katy