@sns I agree we don’t value artists. As a musician, I am quite aware as to how devalued artists’ contributions to society are. It couldn’t be more apparent. I’m not sure a business model that requires artists to receive 100,000 “plays” before they make $400, especially during inflation and a live-show-limiting global pandemic, has “nothing inherently wrong with it.” |
This was a very strange article. reminder..there’s always something..EQ, Compression, Auto Tune or Melodyne! Kind of an engineers (record companies) are screwing with mother nature case. The simple truth is right now, it is an amazing time to be into music. Better than ever. Pick your medium, records, CD’s, streaming. Etc etc etc! You have more options available than ever. There are far more niches available, categories and sub categories. There are more avenues for artists to get their music recorded and out. You can have an entire studio in your laptop. Finally, it is becoming a bit tiresome when top ten list comparisons are made. Overlooked is all the lame or poorly recorded pop peppering the charts..1953? “ “ “How much is that doggie in the Window”…number three selling record. Comparing Led Zeppelin with Justin Bieber is hardly apples to apples. There needs to be some context!
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For sure, i can listen to any indian master or any Nordic jazz i wanted too... Commercial industrial music is bad, but we have access now also to the best artists there is in the world... |
@deludedaudiophile Just go and read some Horkheimer and Adorno and educate yourself. |
Good music lasts. Why are there so many "oldies" stations these days? Because the 60’s and 70’s were the golden age of popular music. It’s not nostalgia, it’s that the music was just that great.
Good music certainly does last. People all over the world are still enjoying music written hundreds of years ago. Virtually all of the classical genre that has survived was written before we had any means of playing it back at home for ourselves. That’s quite impressive, isn’t it? Even from our own lifetimes, we can be fairly certain that some pieces of music will last as long as the human race does. The 1960s in particular remains endlessly fascinating. That miraculous decade more or less featured everything that followed since. On the other hand, if you take away the recency effect it’s hard to see which albums from the last 20 years will make the cut a century from now. But then you could also argue the same for other art forms such as painting, sculpture, literature, television, film etc.
It would appear that human creativity has now moved on to other equally profitable areas of endeavour. There’s already millions of attention seeking YouTube channels for example and new computer games coming out every week. Then there’s the worlds of business, politics and finance...
That old Warhol comment about fame has never seemed more true and making money has never seemed so glamourous. |
