The James Logan Courier

By Jim Farber
New York Daily News (MCT)

Sustaining a pop career is like storming Normandy Beach on D-Day — all by yourself. Every time artists release some music, they're besieged by the industry's equivalent to heavily armed soldiers (i.e. unsympathetic radio programmers, fickle consumers and cutthroat competing artists), all firing bullets that could end their career at any moment.

Never is this peril greater than in the fall. That's when the heaviest guns come out (i.e., the most starry competition), making the potential for failure that much more common — and public.