Addressing the amount of money she’s spent on recording her own music with no expectation of ever seeing a return, Sheryl Crow opened up about the financial reality of making music in 2026.s
Having just dropped Pick You Up, her 13th studio album, the now 64-year-old, the Grammy award winner says she’s actually out of pocket, yet insists she doesn’t care as she’s no longer making music for the money.
In her recent interview with The Sun newspaper, the superstar singer/songwriter said:
“I’m at a point now where it’s not a money-maker for me. In fact, it’s expensive. I pay people — and I’m never going to see the money back. With this record, I’m losing a s*** ton of money.”
Discussing the legacy great songwriters, the Missouri-born musician stated:
“But I think about Dolly (Parton) and I think about Burt Bacharach, people who have written songs that have outlived them.” “I think about my mom who doesn’t make memories any more. But when I play her Moon River or Walk On By, she can sing every word. She can still have that beautiful connection which can never be underestimated.”
Reflecting on how the pressure of chart success began to weigh heavily by her third album The Globe Sessions in 1998 Crow added:
“How do I compete with the success of the last record. What’s happening at radio? All these things get into your head and you wind up trying to craft songs accordingly. By the fourth record (C’mon, C’mon), I was really struggling.” “I was turning 40 and everything at radio was Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera, 18-year-olds.”
Sheryl said a major turning point came when she was diagnosed with breast cancer:
“A lot of things happened along the way that really saved me.”c“ One of them was having cancer because it helped me step away and go, ‘OK, there’s a natural progression with success. One day, you age out of the demographic.’ ” “With having cancer, you also re-evaluate the role of your job and your own self-worth.”
Having eventually returned to music with a new mindset, the songstress concluded “So I stepped away from music for a while and, when I came back, I felt like I was doing it for me. Would I still love to get played on the radio ad nauseam? Yes. Is that going to happen? Most likely no. But that doesn’t mean you have to stop. Ego-wise, it’s just something you have to set down.”
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Author: Saul Goode
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