By and large, the viewer consensus is Miranda Cosgrove cannot act very well. Yet in interviews, Schneider has been quote
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Jeneral28 — 16 years ago(April 27, 2009 10:19 AM)
I certainly agree. He is biased and has overly promoted her whie sidelining the other actors like Jennette and Nathan. Cosgrove's voice is nothing special and yet her songs are on the Billbaord because of how he has promoted her.
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fugazi-grrl — 14 years ago(August 05, 2011 04:56 PM)
Actually, being on Billboard, and peaking at #96 (which Miranda has done) is not altogether a good thing. It is more of a death-knell to a musical career than never charting at all.
Case in point- the all-female 70s rock band,
Fanny
, had one low-peaking song in the early 70s. They produced 5 or 6 albums in the 70s. And today they have a reasonable fan-following. But the only way to actually buy, or listen to their music is a sloppily put together $300 CD set from Rhino Records, or scratched, warped, used LPs sold in moldy, water-damaged sleeves, for exorbitant fees on Amazon & eBay.
In direct contrast, the British 80s band,
Keats - a project of producer Alan Parsons and vocalist Colin Blunstone - never charted nor made any effort to get a single on Billboard. Their single album effort is still in print, on a major label available (on Amazon) for $8.
No collector's items, no struggle for their music to reach their fans, and a strong fanbase in both the UK, and Japan.
So, it looks like having no song on the chart did Keats a lot better than having a low-peaker did for Fanny.
So, maybe getting Miranda a song on Billboard should not, necessarily, be considered a favor.
- the all-female 70s rock band,
