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Originally Posted by olivia_nb  Agreed. My only thought on that though, are the ridiculously huge amounts of money spent in the past required today to develop a product at the same level? The cost and accessibility of gear alone would suggest not. Not to mention the cost of distribution of the product, no more tiers of middle men and expensive physical reproduction, shipping, etc. |
There's a difference between making music, and making enough people aware of the music that the artist has any real chance of a career and of making enough revenues to have made it worth investing in. All of us can make music, but we have about zero chance of anything significant coming out of it, because that would require actual marketing and getting people aware of us.
There was this naive belief that the internet would make all that irrelevant and everyone could put out their music. But, it really didn't work that way. Everyone can put out their music, but that just means that there are that many more people who have zero chance of rising above the noise, the level of which their very efforts are increasing.