Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Toni Romiti and the new phase in Artistry.

Have you heard of a girl named Toni Romiti? No. What about "Bish Whet?". Now you've got it. So, I was recently turned onto her from my cousin who is more in tuned to the underground hip hop world than I am. At first I was like who is this chick? I had never seen her vines, so I hadn't heard of her. Then I heard her song 'Nothing on Me' and I decided to research a little bit more. I realized that though she has a lot of fans she also has a lot of haters which to me is a good thing. These aren't Rebecca Black haters these are girls that are just jealous of her. Another thing that I realized is that she and many other young girls are capitalizing on their internet fame and their fans that attend the same grades they do. I feel like this is the new hip hop. No one listens to the radio anymore. The radio very rarely plays the music most young people are listening to. Well, most urban kids are listening to. A lot, of people say she really isn't an artist but in reality she most definitely is. You can judge her singing ability for yourself,  but let's look at it. She is a young women around the age of 19 or 20. Who doesn't have a whole team of people backing her, all she has are her fans, friends and family. But, for some reason it is working. Her video for 'Nothing on Me', has broken 1 million views and she is soon going on tour. Most girls her age (including me) are struggling to pay for college. The music industry should take note. This is the direction the industry is going. The power is no longer in the major labels. The power is in the smaller Artist with a good number of dedicated fans. Those are the Artist that are going to survive the inevitable decline of the music industry. This generation is slowly but surely taking their places as the new leaders in the world and I'm not sure this is the worst thing.