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Death of Music ?? Horsechips !!!
Posted by on March 6, 2005 at 1:27 AM   (printer friendly)

First,
Let me make this clear,

I am NOT a writer.

You will likely find spelling errors, grammatical problems, and other verbal "gaffes" in this.

I don't care.

That said .......

The Death of MUSIC ???
Yeah .. Right

The Industry whores love to claim that P2P will kill music.
Music, however, in many forms and styles has been in existence as long
as men, women and children have, ( some say longer, but THAT'S another story ).
From the time we lived in caves and pounded out simple rythms for entertainment
or worship. Music as a "product" or and "industry" compared to that is a VERY
recent developement. In fact, if the "industry" collapses music will continue to
exist.

There will be a difference though.

Those that "manufacture" audio "product" as a marketing tool will vanish.
Those that create music for the joy of it will continue to do so.
P2P will allow those that create to SHARE their creativity with millions of
individuals who may otherwise have never heard these " children of their muse "

The creative among us are beginning to imagine a world without THEM.
A world in which we can all be heard, by anyone who wishes to listen.

THAT is their fear.

The INDUSTRY will die, but music will continue.

Throw away the "product" .... listen to the music.

Dreddsnik
The Illiterate.


User Comments (These do not necessarily reflect the beliefs of this site)

awehr  
Date: March 7, 2005 @ 12:19 PM
i don't need to read an article to know music is dying. not in the monetary sense.. in the cultural sense.. in the talent sense.

I'd blame it on flavor of the month a&r work..

terrible bands.. with even more terrible music...

there is little truly expressive music in record stores.. and what is there is at least 15 years old now. Genres many describe as crap now were once good back before the a&r's got involved..

generally the saying goes.. it's paradise until everyone wants to go there.. then it gets paved over and destroyed by overpopulation.

Dreddsnik4  
Date: March 7, 2005 @ 12:50 PM
Thanks for commenting Awehr, but my point is that music won't die if the Industry vanishes.

The flavor of the month will die.
Terrible cookie cutter "bands" will die.

Creativity will be able to come to the forefront again.

ShadowMom  
Date: March 7, 2005 @ 1:33 PM
Yeah, it should be Death of the Music Industry, Dreddsnik. They just leave off that one word and it changes the meaning immensely. And you're right on target--if the industry dies, in my opinion, it can only be good for music. It will put a stop to a lot of these copycat acts.

DeadMan2003  
Date: March 7, 2005 @ 2:18 PM
I think people are overly optimistic. Celebrity will still exist. People will still follow trends. It goes in cycles. Give it another few years and boy bands will be popular again or disco fever or new wave or punk etc etc.

captdunsel  
Date: March 7, 2005 @ 4:01 PM
deadman is right. anyone remember the bay city rollers? (god, I'm not really that old am I?)

Dreddsnik4  
Date: March 7, 2005 @ 4:56 PM
It IS rather like a pendulum, isn't it Deadman ?
It is swinging one way now, with the "industry" slowly collapsing under it's own weight.
Once they die the cycle will begin again.

Music isn't the ONLY thing that will live as long as people do.
Our complete inability to remember our mistakes, so that we continually repeat them also seems eternal.

gdZiemann  
Date: March 7, 2005 @ 5:17 PM
"Our complete inability to remember our mistakes, so that we continually repeat them also seems eternal."

Nah. If you do enough takes, eventually you get a keeper. It just seems like eternity.

ShadowMom  
Date: March 7, 2005 @ 5:17 PM
Saturday...Saturday... Saturday night's all right....please don't ever use the word disco and the word music in the same reality, DeadMan.

Dreddsnik4  
Date: March 7, 2005 @ 9:45 PM
Wasn't the Bay City Rollers big about the same time as the Knack was ??

BLEAUGHGHGH !!

I HAD forgotten about them till now.

Thanks pal ;)

stilltrying  
Date: March 7, 2005 @ 10:59 PM
Listen to the Music ?????? I think the Dobie Brothers did that tune!!!! You better be glad that you only used the title or the labels could sue you haha!!!!!!!