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Originally posted by BevvyB
" When you are deceived for years and years, you just don't resolve yourself to make jumps of joy as soon as somethink new happens ..." - malice
When people start talking like that about the biz ("i've been deceived") I hear warning bells and start seeing the dreaded (and much discussed) "Creatives vs. Industry" rant approaching.
Usually brought on by alcohol and a bad day.
I don't like that train of thought, and it's below you, don't do it !
I'm from the ' no one owes me a damn thing' school of thought. The only person I've ever deceived about this whole industry is myself. Infrequently. |
Ok, I see your point.
But,
My rant is more general and in any case limited to my little "industry".
I've been very lucky to make the record I wanted, and live from my productions so far. I've also been fed by those majors that every year allows me to bring enough money in the house to make possible some project that i wouldn't have started otherwise.
Nevertheless, I really think they have ****ed up a system that brought major artists back in the days, and that somehow are less and less common in the present time.
Do I suffer from that : not really. In fact, I'm bitter when I hear the radio, not while I'm working. I still make the music I like, I might wish to sell more of it, but hey, so far I'm doing pretty good.
I'm more concerned with the younger generation, fed with "american idol" and all those giant broadcast karaoke stuff that is nothing more than easy money to the majors and creativity vacuum. I don't know how old you are, but it is a fact that I cross more and more unqualified mooks among those big record company staff. Some girl at BMG who was actualy signing artist told me once she didn't knew shitt about music, and I have tons of storys alike: read Mixerman diary, it pretty much set up the picture, even if it is a compilation of the worse experience he had, it is most enlightning.
So when I see less and less of those companies because of fusions, when I see people making computers that will head entertainment business, when I see more and more labels bankrupt because they couldn't match with international giants, I feel I have the right to be pessimistic, drunk or not, I feel right to ask you where the hell do you see how those same guys who ****ed up this business the last twenty years will, by the magic of a new downloadable format, bring back a new perspective that will save the music industry ?
As for staying in the boat, well :
I will, as long as I could make more money doing so than doing nothing, but I'm not slave to this job, and I won't, for supreme artistic reasons starve and crave to give Major labels big bosses or Mr Steve Jobs himself a better life than they allready have.
I'm not bitter Bev, but I don't swallow everything I'm fed with without giving it a big thought ...
Call me stupid ...
Regards
malice
