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The fact is music has been devalued and no one has come up with a viable business model.
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How many one hit wonders off MTV and all the commercial radio stations actually have succesive and succesful tours? Not many and not for long. The most enduring acts are touring endlessly doing exactly what they want to as artists, performing for people. The "commercially" succesful acts do most of their performing in the tabloids and on the gaggle of boring ET shows.
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That used to be true...that's the thing, is the internet has really changed the playing field so much that things like that don't matter anymore.
Witness this band called Black Kids...pretty good band, sort of a Cure-meets-Motown sound that has HUGE potential. They had no label, no marketing, no distribution. They did n't even have a record. So they went on MySpace, set up a page, and put their debut EP "The Wizard of Ahhs" up and it got them more attention than some half-promoted, destined-for-the-cutout-bin debut record put out by a major would have. And what do ya know? Those Black Kids are now touring over in Europe and they got picked up by the management team that brought us the Arcade Fire, so they're already primed for success.
The fact is music has been devalued and no one has come up with a viable business model.
Has it really though? Sure, as a sellable product or a corporate commodity it has been...but should music be either of those in the first place?
I think something that's really interesting that I've seen happen over the last decade is that people seem more interested in catalog music and actually less interested in current "now" pop music. Because of greater access (like MP3s and satellite radio), people are listening to older music and not necessarily succumbing to the corporate mandates.
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At least in Germany MTV has been converted to an advertisement platform for cellphone ringtones.How many one hit wonders off MTV and all the commercial radio stations actually have succesive and succesful tours?
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When I take the bus I can still witness the same youngers listening to the newest in-thing, only that it's no longer Pop but more specialized music which delivers to smaller sub-groups (Hip-Hop, Goth, Emo) but is produced by the same big companies.
I think something that's really interesting that I've seen happen over the last decade is that people seem more interested in catalog music and actually less interested in current "now" pop music.
Seems like they're not giving away their status too easily.
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Be that as it may, I still see and hear kids more aware of music past the last three years than you used to...I was a manager at a corporate chain music store 1999-2000 and it's weird looking back at that period because it was right before internet music REALLY took off and become what it is today. The kind of shit they were trying to sell back then was amazing...
That's just it. New music from new bands in recent years isn't getting any attention, because mainstream radio stations, VH-1 and of course MTV have lost all credibility. Good new music is still coming out every year, but there is no longer a viable marketing and distribution strategy to become popular. So nobody new is popular.
So young people are going back a few years and catching up with bands that got some buzz then, or going back even farther and checking out bands with well-established reputations. They don't know where else to look. Nobody does.
I can come across an interesting band on MySpace and try to tell my friends about it or even send them links, but unless I actually play the music while they are hanging out with me, the indifference and complacency keeps them from giving it a try.
Of course, part of the problem is that most people kind of give up on new music before they hit 30. They would rather listen to their favorite music from their teens and twenties than try something new and different.
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