should i go to a business or music school? ?
Question by Radha Balgangadhar: should i go to a business or music school? ?
it’s between NYU Steinhardt and penn state smeal and i really don’t know what to do
my parents want me to go to smeal b/c its more practical and they think i’m gonna wind up out on the streets if i go to a music school but i reallyyy want to go to nyu. what do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp3oGphy_kw&feature=channel_page
that’s me singing btw
Best answer:
Answer by Rachel_S165
Go to business school.
The music industry is REALLY, REALLY HARD to make it in. There are thousands of starry-eyed hopefuls out there trying to scratch out a living and very few people actually manage to make a living at it. If you go to music school and don’t make it, you’ll probably wind up working at McDonalds, because you won’t have any other marketable job skills. :-((
And you don’t need to go to music school to be a successful pop or rock singer. Most famous pop, rock, R & B or hip-hop singers never went to music school at all.
OTOH, if you study business in college, you’ll be able to support yourself with a decent day job while you work on your music in your spare time. And if you study business (finance, accounting, personal income tax, business law, marketing), you’ll have the necessary background to be able to either manage your own music career (or at least be able to talk intelligently with a manager or agent when/if you get one) — or you could possibly use your business background to get into artist management, or work for a record company, after you graduate.
What do you think? Answer below!