Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.
Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.
There was a time when certain producers could produce just about anything, and the label execs would say, "That's a such-and-such record. Let's put that out as the first single. "
When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.