In the latest episode of the Billboard Pridecast, MadameGandhi talks to iamsheadiamond about questioning problematic norms in society and celebrating queerness in all its forms.
) to realize she wanted to be as an artist — and what she didn't want. Working as a digital analyst for Interscope Records, the now-31-year-old star tracked patterns in Spotify streams and YouTube views, before coming to her own conclusion about the way the major label music business works.
Looking back on her time with Interscope, Gandhi makes clear that while major labels do produce great music, they also perform a very specific task."They are music lovers, but they're not musicians," she says."Their job is to make sure that an artist is bringing in money, and when an artist no longer brings in money, they sign the next 40 others.
Gandhi got the opportunity to do just that earlier this year, when she embarked on Oprah Winfrey's 2020 Vision Tour alongside morning dance community Daybreaker. Before each show, Gandhi and her fellow performers with Daybreaker would perform on the drums and get people dancing and "ready to receive the good energy" that Oprah would bring them.
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