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I am one man who writes (pretty poorly) about music because I love it. I study, play, produce, engineer, analyze, and obsess about music. Enjoy all the topics I can muster up to write about.
Record Labels and greedy Middle Men have been hurting musicians and promoting the wrong acts (those that are potentially more profitable and easier to control than those with talent, integrity, etc) forever. But, the industry must exist in some capacity because it’s mere existence (minus the exploitation part) helps bands by offering platforms… a real catch-22.
I agree there needs to be some sort of industry in place. Musicians need to focus on being creative and performing and shouldn’t have to be brilliant marketers or promoters.
But after a random listen of Ryan Seacrest count down the Top 40 this morning on the radio I was disgusted as to what the ‘industry’ is out there promoting. Honestly? Every song was close to making me ill.
Those are not the records I want to buy.
I use autotune frequently but AS IT WAS INTENDED. Are we going to look back (or not even need to) and wonder what the HELL record producers were thinking by using that as an ‘effect’? It’s a tool. No one can or should see the hammer that helped build a house…
And blaming peer to peer sites for killing it is not the answer. They have been around for over a decade now. Shouldn’t a big industry be able to figure out a new alternative in over 10 years??