This summer went by extremely fast for me. I had two internships lined up for me from Monday through Friday in Nashville, Tennessee. I thought the summer was going to take so long, and just drag on like there was no end, but to my surprise it was over before I knew it.
On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday I had my internship at Sony Music Nashville as a radio production intern. Sony Music Nashville is made up of three different record labels which are RCA, which has artists such as Chris Young, Garth Brooks, Jake Owen, and Miranda Lambert. The second label that makes up Sony Nashville is Columbia. Their roster is made up of Tyler Farr, Steven Lee Olsen, Chase Rice, and the big dog himself, Kenny Chesney. Then we come to the final label Arista which has some big hitters like Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Kix Brooks, The Doobie Brothers, Jerrod Niemann, and new up and comer and personal favorite, Cam.
My first week at Sony was so crazy because that happened to be the week of the Country Music Association Festival where an average of 89,000 people came to see 7 different stages of country music for free. During this week they would pack the all the interns, including myself, into a car and have us wear matching tee shirts of what ever particular artist we were pushing that day. We had to go downtown in the 100+ degree weather and hand out stickers, shot glasses, koozies, and sunglasses. Although the weather was outrageous, I never had more fun in my life. We got to take breaks in-between passing out promo items and got to go watch some of the Sony artists.
After the CMA festival was over, I settled into my role as the radio production intern at Sony. My job was to cut up raw interview footage from artists that my boss would compile. The program I used was called Sony SoundForge. Other times I would be using Pro Tools and making Radio spots for artist that would get sent out weekly to radio stations all over the country. The typical spot I would make would have someone say “THIS IS THE SONG BLAA BLAA BLAA BY BLAA BLAA BLAA!!!!” Then I would have to bring in the song smoothly at the hook so that the listener would hear the chorus of the song right away. When I first started it wasn't the best. It wasn't awful, but not great by any stretch of the
imagination.
Every Wednesday, I had my internship at Big Loud!!!!!!!! (I have to be extra loud when I say the name). Big Loud is the management company for Artists Chris Lane, Dallas Smith, and Florida Georgia Line. When i worked there i interned for the head of content and new media.
There I made a lot of videos on Adonis primer for the artist to use on their Instagram. Now that I know we will be using primer on class I am very happy that I did that internship!
Overall I had a great summer and doing all that just secured the fact that I want to be in the music business.
So far this new class has been a great help and I think will not help me in my future internships, and I can't wait to see what is to come.
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