In reply to PR EXPERT (HWOOD PUBLICIST).

You're right, Rihanna black Madonna - I did not give my full advice because most posters here could not handle it. If you want success and to support yourself in music, you have to sell yourself out a little.

A lot of artists are in this bubble where they think "Wow, my A&R person really is looking out for me getting me hits from these talented songwriters" whereas in reality the A&R is high on meth and the songwriter is burnt out trying to write everyone hits and will write whatever first comes to mind WITHOUT taking time to carefully craft a song specific to a singer or EVEN an emotion!

My suggestion that Dawn try blonde shades of hair iS NOT racist. All white women who are blonde in Hollywood were ALSO born with dark brown hair or EVEN 1B (Britney was! Her hair is naturally a black/brown color). Shakira had to go blonde to get attention in the states. The US loves blondes because of our fixation on icons like Marilyn Monroe, Sharon Stone, Madonna, etc. It's called being an ~ICONIC BLONDE~ for a reason.