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To make it like a warning. And for us to understand it better. He is trying to tell us that we are not a special snowflake and that the chances of becoming a big star is one to a billion.

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It is told in 1st person. This makes the text more personal and brutal because it seems like you are reading his thoughts.

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His language is very harsh - he swears a lot and this informal language makes it a lot more direct. He doesn't have a filter. You can see that on p. 27, l. 2: "Fuck. Off. Seriously, your parents are right" - referencing to the parents being right about the kids not having any chance.

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It is very tough and it is hard to reach the top and stay there because there are so many artists. You might be on the top for a short time and then you hit rock bottom because everyone gets bored with you.

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We are given a very negative picture of the music industry. We get the feeling, that it's completely impossible to start a career making music. The text could put a lot of upcoming talents into a state of hopelessness, where they believe there is no chance at all succeeding, and where they might just give it all up.

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Ella, Victhoria, Frederikke, Diana & Iben

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Ella, Victhoria, Frederikke, Diana & Iben

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The text is mostly written in first person but it is also written a small amount in 2nd person. When the story is in 2nd person it seems very blunt and direct because it is almost demanding in the way that it tells you what to do.

“A couple of words for all you hopefuls out there in unsigned bands: Fuck. Off. Seriously, your parents are right. You might as well spend your guitar-string money on lottery tickets - your chances will be much the same.”

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Iben, Ella, Victhoria, Diana og Frederikke

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Iben, Ella, Victhoria, Diana og Frederikke

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The music industry does not give a damn about you. Your chance of success is minimal and they know it. They are tired of being flooded with the hopes and dreams of people who does not have a chance to get successful. If you are one of the few who sign a contract, it does not mean that you made it. The industry is harsh. They show no mercy.

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Very harsh – uses “fuck” or “fucking” a lot

It is the characters language and its story, and this highlights its point of view.

It is like he is speaking to us, and this makes it more sincere.

More present.

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He is very direct. He says what he means unfiltered and is very harsh - "Fuck off". The tone is very depressing and unformal. He has many ironic and rude sentences such as: "Madonna, The Spice Girls, Neol, Kylie, do you really think any of that lot are talented?"
"Don't fucking make me laugh".

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It’s written in 1st person which makes it very personal and subjective

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The story is told in first person so you really get to know the narrators feelings and thought so you follow him through every thing he has been through

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Ella, Frederikke, Diana, Iben and Victhoria

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Ella, Frederikke, Diana, Iben and Victhoria

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Because Its a satirical novel. The hidden face of the recording industry is described, its ruthless side, that which no one knows, but which Niven describes with extreme authority (having been part of it for many years). In this world, appearance is everything and nobody really knows what they are doing.

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He shares the opinion of the narrator, the harshness of the music industry.
He is trying to scare off, the aspiring musicians.

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He has a aggresive tone and he uses a lot of swear words like when he says "Fuck Talent"

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The story is told in a 1st person narrator, because we hear the narrator using first person pronouns like I, we, our and us.

Example of the use of “us”
“You now owe us 100K.”
(p. 28, l. 23-24)

Example of the use of “we”
“We receive upwards of three hundred unsolicited demo tapes every week”
(p. 27, l. 4-5)

Example of the use of “our”
“spilling over the carpets and taking up sofa space until Tom, our work experience, has to lug sacks of them down to the incinerator where you hopes and dreams are - rightly - burned in the fires of hell”
(p. 27, l. 14-17)

Example of the use of “I”
“In return for her fifteen minutes I guarantee you that Geri Halliwell would have…” (p. 31, l. 12-13)

The use this narrator makes the story feel more shocking, by fully taking the responsibility of what is told, even though it might seem extremely harsh, we feel like there must be some truth in what he is saying otherwise he wouldn’t risk telling it to us without any filter at all.

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The narrator has no filter, everything he thinks, even if it’s not morally right to say, he puts on the paper, without thinking. This translates directly into his tone and language.

His tone seems angry, like he really is tired of people thinking they can be famous. An example of this can be found on page 31, line 1 through 6.

“Madonna, Bono the Spice Girls, Noel Gallagher, Kylie… do you really think any of that lot are talented? Don’t make me fucking laugh. What they are is ambitious. This is where the big money is”
(p. 31, l. 1-6)

He uses swear words like “fucking” and he asks us a rhetorical question and then proceeds to answer it and then make fun of you if you disagreed.

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1. immoral = because he shits on people work regardless of their passion for it.

2. discriminatory = He discriminates all artists in the way that he says it does not matter wether they have talent or not.

3. worth taking advice from = He is worth taking advice from because he shows the reality of the music industry. It is all about luck.

4. cynical = he is very straight forward about people having 1:1million chance of being discovered as an artist. So dont bother the companies with useless demo's

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Its written in 1st person and that   makes the text very personal. Its is like reading his thoughts about fame.

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The text tells all the people, who wants to be famous, that it is impossible. Each year a lot of people try to break into the “famous world”, but almost every single one fail. The music industry is though, and you have to get a job instead of being a musician. If you want to earn money and have a happy live, you should get a job instead of trying to be famous.

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I think he made the narrator sound like this to make his point come across to more people. When you hear someone say that you might as well just give up, or rather, you should definitely give up, your first thought would be “they can’t tell me what to do”. However, when using this kind of narrator, the author makes it feel like we don’t even have the chance nor the time to even ask this question, he just keeps on throwing words in our face, until we are finally convinced he is right.

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He is funny because he doesn't care about what others think about him. What some might find funny others might find immoral and discriminating because of his honesty and lack of compassion. He shoots down young musicians' dreams.
We think that the advice from this text is that you should think about the consequences of trying to become famous.

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It makes the music industry feel brutal. If you’re not willing to give up everything, you’re not fit. In addition, even if you were to get a shot at it, you would most likely fail, and end up in a debt you would have to pay off for the rest of your life.

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The author made the narrator sound like this because they wanted to get a point across.
He wants people to know how hard it is to make it in the music industry

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He is funny because he uses such phrases like "Fuck off". He is a bit discriminating to people who have a dream of becoming something big like an artist. He is discriminating towards women.

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Funny

You might not think that he is funny, because he seems extremely serious about his case, but the humor lies in the way he just completely tears down everything and everyone.

Immoral

He is very immoral, normally you wouldn’t describe anyone as “malnourished cockless freaks”, but he simply tells us what he thinks, taking no interest in the fact that it might me immoral.

Discriminatory

In the same way as he is immoral he also comes across as very discriminatory, this can be seen in the same example as before when he calls indies “malnourished cockless freaks”.

worth taking advice from

You wouldn’t think that anyone would ever take any advice from a man sounding as delusional as this, but the fact of the matter is, that he is an expert. He has experience, he is an A&R executive in a big record company, so that fact that he is so pessimistic about this, might be because it’s true.

cynical

He is very cynical, the reason why he is saying all of this is because he is annoyed with all the work he must do, listening to bad demos.

self-loathing

Self-loathing means that you feel an intense dislike towards you, or a group that you are part of. He hates that he is a part the music industry, and that they keep signing unambiguous artists, and never producing good celebrities.

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Diana, Ella, Frederikke, Victhoria and Iben

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Diana, Ella, Frederikke, Victhoria and Iben

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He seems a bit ridicules.

Funny: Maybe his ironi and honesty can seem a bit funny.
Immoral: He just says whatever he thinks, without thinking about who he can hurt.
Discriminatory: He puts everyone down.
Worth taking advice from: He has a lot of experience in the music industry, but you should reach for your dreams.
Cynical: Complains because he has experience and he thinks that knows best.
Self loathing:

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Duncan in Juliet, Naked

In “Juliet, Naked” music has completely taken over all meaning in Duncan’s life. He has no other aspirations than finding out more about his favorite artist and his music, music is everything for him. He has even put his love life on hold because of it.

the narrator and his colleagues in Kill Your Friends

Music to the narrator and his colleagues is nothing more than money. If you can’t make them any money you’re out and not fit to make music. They don’t need any talent, they just need you to be ambitious, so you can make them as much cash as possible.

the "indie kids" in Kill Your Friends?

The indie kids are nearly described as stupid by the narrator, because they won’t make as much money as he will. However, I think that the indies are actually the ones who most enjoy music, because even though it’s not the most popular artists, even though people may not make as much, or that there are not many of them, they still keep on listening to the music, not because everyone else does it, but because it is music that they actually like.

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To him and his colleagues it means money and nothing else. To Duncan it is his passion for Tucker that means a lot and therefore music also means a lot to him. The indie kids are the kids who has a big passion for music and is trying be famous - a bit like Ed Sheeran or Eminem who gave up on everything except the music.

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A modern-day example is lil’ pump with his song “Gucci gang”. The song is definitely no lyrical masterpiece, and the actual melody is nothing special. However, the song and lil’ pump keeps getting attention because of lil’ pump’s reputation as… To be honest I don’t know what he is known for.

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'Juliet Naked' - Duncan likes the artists music but when he then dies/disappears in a mysterious way, he becomes obsessed. He can't think of anything other than the author.

'Kill Your Friends' - He seems to appreciate music but is annoyed by the fact that everyone, with or without talent, sends in demos, since it makes the chance of someone with actual talent to decrease. However, he also seems to hate on music generally because he says that it's only about luck and not about skill.

'Indie Kids' - They believe that they're making music history when in reality they're just some other guys like everyone else.

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Funny? As I wrote this I couldn't help top laugh a bit, the reason was that his attitude about everything seemed soo hopeless, maybe one of the saddest things I have heard in a while.
Talking about immoral, he is a bastard throwing out swear words here and there not giving a damn about if he offends anyone, which also might make him a bit discriminatory. Still he is an expert on the subject and his opinion on the matter might actually be the closest to the truth we get, even though it seems completely hopeless.
He proberbly does not even like his job because it is just sad seeing these people turn out broke not able to make a living in the music industry.

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Death rock is kinda rough genre were they just scream and yell and it doesn't really have anything in to it

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Duncan from the story "Juliet Naked" loves music so much and the narrator loves it aswell just in another way.

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Rebecca Black is a good example of that, because she cant sing but she had a popular song because of the bad autotune so everyone laughed at her.

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Paris Hilton. She was able to make music, because of her family's money.

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Ella, Diana, Frederikke, Victhoria and Iben

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Ella, Diana, Frederikke, Victhoria and Iben

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For the fans the music means everything, but for this narrator from "Kill your friends" the music is just money. And the indie kids also mean that music is life.

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Ella, Diana, Frederikke, Victhoria and Iben 

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Ella, Diana, Frederikke, Victhoria and Iben 

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Youtubers music.

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Alot of the up and comming rap music.
for example:
Lil pump
Fie Lauersen
Gulddreng
Jesu brødre is a great example because they are the same age as us and are studying in high school. They produce their own music by themselves with no help.