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>how notoriously difficult it is to stay alive and relevant in the entertainment industry.

This smells really bad: the entertainment industry is notoriously hard for the majority of artists to gain a foothold, but there are just as many notable cases of sub-par artists getting ahead through nepotism etc. And that's only discussing the talent, the business end of the music industry has that issue to reductio-ad-absurdum levels.