Johnny Swallow
Bad Daddy Johnny
How fine is the line between these two?
Sometimes I sit here and complain about how there is 'no good music coming out these days, the music industry is producing a bunch of crap' etc etc. (I know it all comes down to each individual's taste in music but I know many feel the same as I do).
I've been thinking about the music industry, even asking is the problem the music industry itself? Think about it, how absurd does it seem to say 'the poetry industry', 'the post-modernistic painting industry'...seems like an oxymoron to me at least. Art, product, industry, where does one start and the other begin?
But when you think of the great artists of other mediums, Picasso, Van Gogh, Shakesphere, Michealangelo et. al. they were not part of an industry. While their art may have provided their living, it wasn't squeezed out by an industry. They didn't have to deal with producers, record execs, A&R people, experts on which demographic their art should be targeted toward, managers telling them which markets to focus on. Their inspiration wasn't on a timetable, their genius didn't have to meet any schedule. Shouldn't we expect the same from those we look to make artful music? No wonder this same old pile of shite keeps being crapped out by the music industry on to the willing public. How can originality, creativity and genuine emotion be expressed through music when it is churned out like a million songs before it.
Record execs need to learn that making good songs is not a damn math equation. And professional songwriters sap all that is pure and honest about what music can be.
Are we kidding ourselves? THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, what a joke.
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This post brought to you by: Me "Don't hate me because I'm bitter."
AIM: JuanSwallow
Sometimes I sit here and complain about how there is 'no good music coming out these days, the music industry is producing a bunch of crap' etc etc. (I know it all comes down to each individual's taste in music but I know many feel the same as I do).
I've been thinking about the music industry, even asking is the problem the music industry itself? Think about it, how absurd does it seem to say 'the poetry industry', 'the post-modernistic painting industry'...seems like an oxymoron to me at least. Art, product, industry, where does one start and the other begin?
But when you think of the great artists of other mediums, Picasso, Van Gogh, Shakesphere, Michealangelo et. al. they were not part of an industry. While their art may have provided their living, it wasn't squeezed out by an industry. They didn't have to deal with producers, record execs, A&R people, experts on which demographic their art should be targeted toward, managers telling them which markets to focus on. Their inspiration wasn't on a timetable, their genius didn't have to meet any schedule. Shouldn't we expect the same from those we look to make artful music? No wonder this same old pile of shite keeps being crapped out by the music industry on to the willing public. How can originality, creativity and genuine emotion be expressed through music when it is churned out like a million songs before it.
Record execs need to learn that making good songs is not a damn math equation. And professional songwriters sap all that is pure and honest about what music can be.
Are we kidding ourselves? THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, what a joke.
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This post brought to you by: Me "Don't hate me because I'm bitter."
AIM: JuanSwallow