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Originally Posted by clorax hurd  to me it seems that the whole music industry is sick now. it doesn't serve a purpose. i mean, the purpose should be to create some great music and sell it to customers, but the industry fails more and more in the first thing (creating some great music), because what the industry focus on, is profit and not the music. people of most professions in this industry became *****s and i think that even many sound engineers bitching in here about how the industry is dying, many of them are probably also guilty, for example because they submited themselves to became soldiers in the loudness war, which also contributed to the fact, that the industry is producing shit and not music.
to me the music industry seems sick. the music industry was going against themselves for decades, and now the cancer of the industry is soo big...well, i think that it gone so far that it will be less effort just to watch it fall and die, and have something different grow, than to try to heal/transform it (with uncertain results) in this phase |
Well, you may be right about all that.
To me, the point is that we have to rebuild it in some fashion someday. The reason people promote crap music is as you say, but, there are even deeper core issues why good music can't be found by labels. The people in charge of selecting which bands will go up have no way of telling whether a band is good or drek because they have no musical talent themselves. THEY DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. but, I suspect that on their application and interview for employment at "said major label", they alluded to the fallacy that hey did know the difference and did have some musical background. They may have and it may have been absolute shite.
I met an A&R guy in NY working for BMG, he was looking for people to join his band, I looked into it because it seemed a little weird to me. He had absolutely no talent, his music was absolute unfathomably bad shite, and his strategy was based solely on schtick, not music. (plus he was weirder than all hell and flaming out constantly).
He wasn't a bad guy, he was very nice, his flame outs were funny, but, I would NEVER employ this guy to pick talent for a major label. TV acts? Maybe for the "Gong Show".
I don't know how BMG is doing these days, but, if that guy is still there, I suspect not too good. I know an A&R person has to go through a whole process of people to get a group signed, but, it seems to me that it isn't based on talent, catalogue, material, ability, or anything that would promote a future music business. It's been that way increasingly since the late eighties and the entire biz started falling apart right then too. I saw it with my own two eyes.
I mean really, look at it, it gotten soooo bad that we now use software to disguize the absolute fact that major label artists have no ability to deliver the product without it.
That is very very telling. It's like a ventilator at a hospital, the patient is dead and no longer breathing, they hook them up to a heart lung machine till organ harvest if there is to be one.
DEAD.