zoo
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Hey all,
So this morning I woke up to an email from an A&R from Atlantic Records, claiming they are looking for new talent and and that this A&R's "colleagues" had shown her my music, and thus she was contacting me.
Now straight off the bat, I would find it pretty suspect that her colleagues showed her my music...seeing as I hardly promote my music at all...and have hardly any presence online or in my city. I tweet a little bit, but nothing major. I'm still mostly focusing on the actual music.
Anyway, the email ended with an Atlantic Records logo - and had the whole "Confidentiality" legal essay at the end, in this sense the email did look legit.
I Googled the A&R and everything has come up pretty honest. Whoever the email is claiming to be certainly does exist.
I emailed the A&R back asking two initial questions from which I hope to get a reply - and then I will follow those initial questions up with some more more complex questions in order to try figure out if I'm being messed around. On top of this I've also tweeted this A&R's legit account to see if she is sending out emails off the email address which I am in contact with.
I've checked out her name with "scam" on Google, and the email address in question - I found one hit of a guy who ended up flying to London to try meet up with this A&R to showcase his music, needless to say he was scammed heavily.
I'm posting this here and providing as much detail as possible in the hope to get some advice from some more experienced members of this forum as I have only been making beats just over a year and have no industry sense as of yet!
So this morning I woke up to an email from an A&R from Atlantic Records, claiming they are looking for new talent and and that this A&R's "colleagues" had shown her my music, and thus she was contacting me.
Now straight off the bat, I would find it pretty suspect that her colleagues showed her my music...seeing as I hardly promote my music at all...and have hardly any presence online or in my city. I tweet a little bit, but nothing major. I'm still mostly focusing on the actual music.
Anyway, the email ended with an Atlantic Records logo - and had the whole "Confidentiality" legal essay at the end, in this sense the email did look legit.
I Googled the A&R and everything has come up pretty honest. Whoever the email is claiming to be certainly does exist.
I emailed the A&R back asking two initial questions from which I hope to get a reply - and then I will follow those initial questions up with some more more complex questions in order to try figure out if I'm being messed around. On top of this I've also tweeted this A&R's legit account to see if she is sending out emails off the email address which I am in contact with.
I've checked out her name with "scam" on Google, and the email address in question - I found one hit of a guy who ended up flying to London to try meet up with this A&R to showcase his music, needless to say he was scammed heavily.
I'm posting this here and providing as much detail as possible in the hope to get some advice from some more experienced members of this forum as I have only been making beats just over a year and have no industry sense as of yet!