3-LockBox
04-14-2009, 12:55 PM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-856606244008931882&ei=34jjSeDJK9CF-Aa0hvmgBw&q=rock+documentary
Talks about the demise of mainstream music. Its long. I'm watching as I type.
You gotta see the part where they talk about making a pop star - killer stuff
Halfway through, and all I can say is....sad....not exactly news...explains a lot of stuff though.
When we say corporate music industry is morally and artistically bankrupt...we don't even know the half of it.
Fave quote so far: "We live in a country that seems to be in a massive state of delusion, where the idea of what you are is more important than you actually being that. And it works as long as everyone is winking at the same time. And then if one person stops winking, you just beat the crap out that person, and either they start winking, or they go somewhere else." - Branford Marsalis - he's never short of opinions is he.
Fabricated pop stars have been around since the beginning of rock music. Look at an act like Fabian, then 5 or 6 years later, The Monkeys. The technology is better, making it easier to make pop stars out the prettiest of people, but there have always been those who wanted to manufacture their own cash cows.
All in all, I still manage to find plenty of good music without listening to the radio. Its radio's loss, not mine. Sure, it'd be great if radio had a little more variety, but with the advent satellite radio and the internet, I'm not so sure radio could still afford to be too brave with its playlist, even if their playlist wasn't a corporate mandate. It's funny to me that music that was popular before the video era (back when MTV/VH-1 showed videos), is the music that continues to appeal to a wide market. I wonder how music post-video era would fare on radio's playlists today.
Watching this documentary, its no wonder corporate music execs want to kill the internet. Despite their attempts to feed us pablum, we still manage to find music that we like, opposed to music they need us to like. Its like trying to contain water - eventually, it finds a crack and....well...
I did find interesting that Dave Matthews Band was used as an example of artistry we're being denied due to "bottom line thinking". Talk about everyone winking at the same time.;)
Talks about the demise of mainstream music. Its long. I'm watching as I type.
You gotta see the part where they talk about making a pop star - killer stuff
Halfway through, and all I can say is....sad....not exactly news...explains a lot of stuff though.
When we say corporate music industry is morally and artistically bankrupt...we don't even know the half of it.
Fave quote so far: "We live in a country that seems to be in a massive state of delusion, where the idea of what you are is more important than you actually being that. And it works as long as everyone is winking at the same time. And then if one person stops winking, you just beat the crap out that person, and either they start winking, or they go somewhere else." - Branford Marsalis - he's never short of opinions is he.
Fabricated pop stars have been around since the beginning of rock music. Look at an act like Fabian, then 5 or 6 years later, The Monkeys. The technology is better, making it easier to make pop stars out the prettiest of people, but there have always been those who wanted to manufacture their own cash cows.
All in all, I still manage to find plenty of good music without listening to the radio. Its radio's loss, not mine. Sure, it'd be great if radio had a little more variety, but with the advent satellite radio and the internet, I'm not so sure radio could still afford to be too brave with its playlist, even if their playlist wasn't a corporate mandate. It's funny to me that music that was popular before the video era (back when MTV/VH-1 showed videos), is the music that continues to appeal to a wide market. I wonder how music post-video era would fare on radio's playlists today.
Watching this documentary, its no wonder corporate music execs want to kill the internet. Despite their attempts to feed us pablum, we still manage to find music that we like, opposed to music they need us to like. Its like trying to contain water - eventually, it finds a crack and....well...
I did find interesting that Dave Matthews Band was used as an example of artistry we're being denied due to "bottom line thinking". Talk about everyone winking at the same time.;)