Demon Baby über die Musikindustrie!
Ich war grad drüben bei Han Dy und habe mir ein paar Minuten Auszeit genommen um diesen Artikel zu lesen ...
Ja da bringt jemand was auf den Punkt, was viele Leute, die Musik lieben, und die sich ein bisschen mit der Thematik auseinander gesetzt haben schon lange wissen ... ein absoluter must read Artikel, auch wenn er lang ist!!!
Danke an den Autor von DemonBaby, also mir geht da das Herz auf, wenn ich das lese und ich teile seine Meinung zu 120% und ich weiss wovon ich rede!!!... hier ein paar Auszüge ...
"The few major labels left are parts of giant media conglomerations - owned by huge parent companies for whom artists and albums are just numbers on a piece of paper. It's why record companies shove disposable pop crap down your throat instead of nurturing career artists: because they have CEOs and shareholders to answer to, and those people don't give a shit if a really great band has the potential to get really successful, if given the right support over the next decade. They see that Gwen Stefani's latest musical turd sold millions, because parents of twelve year old girls still buy music for their kids, and the parent company demands more easy-money pop garbage that will be forgotten about next month. The only thing that matters to these corporations is profit - period. Music isn't thought of as an art form, as it was in the earlier days of the industry where labels were started by music-lovers - it's a product, pure and simple."
"For the major labels, it's over. It's fucking over. You're going to burn to the fucking ground, and we're all going to dance around the fire. And it's your own fault. Surely, somewhere deep inside, you had to know this day was coming, right? Your very industry is founded on an unfair business model of owning art you didn't create in exchange for the services you provide. It's rigged so that you win every time - even if the artist does well, you do ten times better. It was able to exist because you controlled the distribution, but now that's back in the hands of the people, and you let the ball drop when you could have evolved."
"I thought there were plenty of new ways to sell music that would be fair to all parties involved. But I no longer believe that, because the squabbling, backwards, greedy, ownership-obsessed major labels will never let it happen, and that's more clear to me now than ever. So maybe music has to be free. Maybe taking the money out of music is the only way to get money back into it. Maybe it's time to abandon the notion of the rock star - of music as a route to fame and fortune. The best music was always made by people who weren't in it for the money, anyway. "
verdammt jaaaaaaa du hast sowas von recht Junge, dass es weh tut!!!!
am Ende gibt er den Leuten, denen wirklich etwas an Musik und dem Wohlergehen der jeweiligen Lieblingskünstler etwas gelegen ist noch ein paar Verhaltenstips, es ist schon fast ironisch, dass der Autor dieses kleinen blogs hier sich schon seit Jahren an diesen "Verhaltenscodex" hält!!!
Damit habt ihr was zu tun für´s Wochenende... ;)
viel Spass
Zing
UPDATE:
Weil ich immer mal wieder gefragt werde, wie das so ist, in diesem Business (auch wenn meine Kenntnisse noch eher bescheiden sind), hier noch ein Interessanter und brutal realistischer Artikel von Steve Albini, Produzent von Nirvana´s in Utero! Und dieser Gentlemen hier spricht von Major deals, von Bands in der Grössenordnung Sportfreunde Stiller, ja auch H-Blockx und Konsorten, man beachte die Tabelle am Schluss ... es wird Zeit neue Wege zu finden ;)
Ja da bringt jemand was auf den Punkt, was viele Leute, die Musik lieben, und die sich ein bisschen mit der Thematik auseinander gesetzt haben schon lange wissen ... ein absoluter must read Artikel, auch wenn er lang ist!!!
Danke an den Autor von DemonBaby, also mir geht da das Herz auf, wenn ich das lese und ich teile seine Meinung zu 120% und ich weiss wovon ich rede!!!... hier ein paar Auszüge ...
"The few major labels left are parts of giant media conglomerations - owned by huge parent companies for whom artists and albums are just numbers on a piece of paper. It's why record companies shove disposable pop crap down your throat instead of nurturing career artists: because they have CEOs and shareholders to answer to, and those people don't give a shit if a really great band has the potential to get really successful, if given the right support over the next decade. They see that Gwen Stefani's latest musical turd sold millions, because parents of twelve year old girls still buy music for their kids, and the parent company demands more easy-money pop garbage that will be forgotten about next month. The only thing that matters to these corporations is profit - period. Music isn't thought of as an art form, as it was in the earlier days of the industry where labels were started by music-lovers - it's a product, pure and simple."
"For the major labels, it's over. It's fucking over. You're going to burn to the fucking ground, and we're all going to dance around the fire. And it's your own fault. Surely, somewhere deep inside, you had to know this day was coming, right? Your very industry is founded on an unfair business model of owning art you didn't create in exchange for the services you provide. It's rigged so that you win every time - even if the artist does well, you do ten times better. It was able to exist because you controlled the distribution, but now that's back in the hands of the people, and you let the ball drop when you could have evolved."
"I thought there were plenty of new ways to sell music that would be fair to all parties involved. But I no longer believe that, because the squabbling, backwards, greedy, ownership-obsessed major labels will never let it happen, and that's more clear to me now than ever. So maybe music has to be free. Maybe taking the money out of music is the only way to get money back into it. Maybe it's time to abandon the notion of the rock star - of music as a route to fame and fortune. The best music was always made by people who weren't in it for the money, anyway. "
verdammt jaaaaaaa du hast sowas von recht Junge, dass es weh tut!!!!
am Ende gibt er den Leuten, denen wirklich etwas an Musik und dem Wohlergehen der jeweiligen Lieblingskünstler etwas gelegen ist noch ein paar Verhaltenstips, es ist schon fast ironisch, dass der Autor dieses kleinen blogs hier sich schon seit Jahren an diesen "Verhaltenscodex" hält!!!
Damit habt ihr was zu tun für´s Wochenende... ;)
viel Spass
Zing
UPDATE:
Weil ich immer mal wieder gefragt werde, wie das so ist, in diesem Business (auch wenn meine Kenntnisse noch eher bescheiden sind), hier noch ein Interessanter und brutal realistischer Artikel von Steve Albini, Produzent von Nirvana´s in Utero! Und dieser Gentlemen hier spricht von Major deals, von Bands in der Grössenordnung Sportfreunde Stiller, ja auch H-Blockx und Konsorten, man beachte die Tabelle am Schluss ... es wird Zeit neue Wege zu finden ;)
Zingtoh - 16. Nov, 15:07
