Not necessarily. Individuals can be held accountable and others be acknowledged in a "team" environment. Ever hear of MVP, Most Improved, Rookie Of The Year? It all depends on how the company is handled. The company you use for your example shows no forward growth incentive. I wouldn't work there to begin with.
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-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
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(jots down "forward growth incentive" for future use)
I used to play music at those kind of events, we called them "industrial shows." The band was usually in an isolated room with the music conductor/keyboard player getting the cues for what was going on on stage from a headset and monitor. Those gigs paid well, but the music was ludicrous. They'd pick popular tunes and change the lyrics to fit the particular corporation. One was for Sears and they changed the words of Kenny Loggins' "Footloose" to "Everybody shout Sears, shout Sears." Possibly the worst was "We are the world, we are Purina." Oy!
Thanks for the Rachel Platten! I'm definitely going to check out her other tunes. I already had the Kelly Clarkson and Taylor Swift albums.
Taking the "Cheerleader Pop" theme literally, and showing everyone just how much things have changed over time, the cheerleaders in my high school during the mid-70s had routines for David Bowie's "1984" and The Edgar Winters Group's "Free Ride".
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
We don't have cheerleaders here. At least we didn't last time I looked, and i for one am not anxious for us to adopt that particular American custom.
Scratch that Yosemite plan then... need another plan.
Strange, I never heard of this Rachel platten person, which is odd because I have heard the other two ad nauseum.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
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