BAIT & SWITCH
(thanx blackvoices and Crunktastical)
Update: from Solange via twitter:
"stooopiddd iddddiots" rumor control for the day:) I was NOT released from Geffen/Interscope... now back to your regular scheduled program:)"
Apparently..... the real reason the story about Rowland being dropped by Columbia records leaked the way it did last week was so that no one would realize that Geffen/Interscope Records has opted not to further their relationship with daughter Solange Knowles.
The eclectic singer’s sophomore release ‘Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams’ has only sold around 138,000 units since its release in August of 2008 and Geffen/Interscope didn’t see the value in doing a new CD on her.
“Geffen did a one-off deal with Music World Entertainment for Solange and wasn’t interested in doing a new contract with her. People at the label really liked working with her because other than her infamous news outburst in Las Vegas, she was a constant professional. There were challenges dealing with her "camp", but Solange was great to work with. In the end, the CD didn’t sell despite Solange’s countless high profile appearances," the record label source told me.
One of the record labels that Matthew has been meeting with about signing his youngest daughter is Epic Records. Incidentally, Epic Records is also the label that had initially approached Kelly about a new recording contract upon learning that she would be dissolving her management and recording relationship with Music World Entertainment/Columbia.
Epic’s new president Amanda Ghost, a London-bred former recording artist and songwriter, recognized Rowland’s impact as an international recording artist and thought she would be able to duplicate her European success here in America.
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