Q2 : Study about the Artist-Fan Relationship Today.

Based on my understanding on question 2, first I want to write about the relationship between artists and their fans in our era.

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Before social media exists, artists were like "semi-god", we only see them in newspaper or listen to them in the radio. But after social media comes into our life, the relationship between artists and their fans changed. Sometime we see Taylor Swift comments on her fans post, or 2NE1 got their own fans club, so they can interact with their fans. 

As the social media grown bigger and wider, artists can constantly keep their audiences up to date on things that matters, for example like when there is concert or autograph session even when they are not dropping any new album soon. But in the same time, artists also facing challenges like they always need to maintain the relationship with their fans, they have to take time to respond their fans that contact them. 

Other than that, social media also give fans power to help their idols' career such as, fans could post or share information on social media about their idols when they release new album or any new project. This can make their idols expose to more people and gain more fans.

But when it comes to the line between friends and fans, these two are completely different things. Artist need to think about the boundaries that they can accept and draw the line because artist is human too, they can't keep interest for every individual fan that the fans take in them.

Reference:

Cool, D (2011) Fans or Friends? How Social Media is Changing the Artist-Fan Relationship (Part 1) [online] Available on:https://bandzoogle.com/blog/fans-or-friends-how-social-media-is-changing-the-artist-fan-relationship-part-1 (Accessed on 10th June 2017)

Cool, D (2011) Fans or Friends? How Social Media is Changing the Artist-Fan Relationship (Part 2) [online] Available on:https://bandzoogle.com/blog/fans-or-friends-how-social-media-is-changing-the-artist-fan-relationship-part-1 (Accessed on 10th June 2017)

Dark Horse Institute (2015) Music Business: Fostering The Artist-Fan Relationship in the Digital World. [online] Available on:http://darkhorseinstitute.com/music-business-fostering-the-artist-fan-relationship/ (Accessed on 9th June 2017)