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Post by ocelot on Jul 5, 2006 23:12:22 GMT -5
I really hate the state of music right now. It's no longer if you can make great music, you can succeed. Now you also need either a reality TV show, acting career, scandalous image, etc. and it's pushing out the artists that are real. I've noticed a big changein the last 10 years. It used to be if you made great music you might not be a star but you would have moderate success but now it's all about image and publicity. The real music doesn't have a chance. You need to search the internet for the real stuff and even then some great artists are being missed. I hate how you can do a reality show, butcher a classic song when you remake it and be hugely famous and successful for it and then you can make an amazing album that touches hearts of everyone who lets it into their hearts and the album flops. It shouldn't be called the music industry anymore, because it's not about the music anymore.
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Post by cppgenius on Jul 6, 2006 14:53:48 GMT -5
Leona the biggest problem is the fact that too many fans support this behaviour. If fans stop to support artists who are only out there to make publicity, you will see an end to all of this. Artists will not make such a great impact anymore, record companies will loose money and you will see the one artist after the other get sacked. The root of this problem is the fans (ok money too). Something can only flourish if you get mass support for it. Take Lara for instance, she is HUGE in Europe because she gets HUGE support from the fans over there. She is a real artist and that is why she is underrated in so many of the other countries. Something gives me the idea that the European people have a better understanding for real, pure and sincere music, than most of the other countries. My own country is a great example of this (I don't know who saw what happened on the forum at Jacaranda 94.2) www.jacarandafm.com/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,0/func,view/catid,7/id,5721/#5721 The fans are so brainwashed by the junk artists these days that they don't want the real artists. They are like drug addicts in a high, they get withdrawal symptoms when confronted with music from pure artists (like drug addicts normally do when you detox them). Some artists are not even worth it to be called artists. Yes they are artists in the art of controversy and scandals. Abuse drugs, alcohol, sleep with everyone you can, have an affair with everyone you can, have plenty of naked photos published on the internet and the main porno magazines, make music that has more noise than words, forget about the fans, think about the money, the fame, the status. Get pregnant and deliver your baby in some African country. Yeah that will get your face on the front page of every newspaper, fans will love you for doing such an outrageous thing. Can you believe all this, fans adore these artists, not for their music but for their public image? If you take away this image no one will buy their CD's because their music is not just worth it. Artists like these take a couple of words, they put them together in a strange looking way that makes no sense to anyone, they throw in a funky tune and before you know it you have the smash hit that will derail the number one artist on the music charts in next to no time, not because it is a good song (of course the song sucks), but because they have a "great" public image. Leona thanks for bringing up this topic at a time where I am enduring maximum frustration with my own country's music industry and its looser fans. How can you support junk music like this? It is totally incomprehensible. I share the same frustration with you.
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Post by achebeautiful on Jul 6, 2006 16:36:32 GMT -5
I completely agree with your comments Leona and Coenraad!
Something I might add to all of this is the fact that so many of these new artists are gaining success with so little talent by winning a contest on a show like American Idol or something like it. It isn't that they do not have talent or a great voice. That is not my point. But where is the musicianship? Or the songwriting ability?
So many of the best artists over the history of music were so much more than just a great voice. They wrote their songs. They wrote their music. They had a hunger that came from crawling and climbing their way to the top, and it came through in their music. Now everything is handed to these artists, and there is no hunger in it. Having a great voice and 'outsinging' everyone else is not the same thing as singing from the depths of your soul and meaning every word you sing!
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Post by cppgenius on Jul 6, 2006 17:15:09 GMT -5
Referring from a post at Mark's "Concerned" topic.
Mark, I think these words supports the last sentence of your reply.
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