Gangnam Style also had backing from private investors and major record labels across the world.Īdd to this, that YouTube videos don’t become an internet sensation or meme, without a large amount of product development, private investment, and pin-point accuracy in PR planning. Even if you were the most talented musician/producer in the world, you would still need to rely on several other elements being in place in the right combination, and even then an extra bit of luck wouldn’t go amiss.įirst of all, these “overnight sensations” don’t actually happen overnight… It just so happens that perhaps you and your friends have all heard of it overnight, but in the case of Psy for example, he’d been a hard working musician for many years beforehand, and had a fair amount of success in his home country already.

You can’t *choose* to be the next big thing. It’s like “Yahoo Answers” but way better because you can follow people and subjects (like Audio Engineering for example), and you can vote up/down answers which means people reading the answers can see the reliability of an answer by the number of votes it’s got.Īnyway, I recently answered a question there, that was “What should I do to become the next Psy and make the next Gangnam Style?”… I thought this was an interesting question, since it reveals a major flaw in what I see as the publics understanding of fame, and more importantly the “overnight sensation”. So some of you may already know this, but I’m an avid member of the Quora community.

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