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DimChandeliers
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Remember that song you liked a lot but they hardly ever played on the radio? Remember what a pleasant surprise it was when they played it? FORGET ABOUT IT!!! Next week there will be a satellite radio station dedicated to playing that song 24 hours a day!
The market is saturated folks. Music has been devalued. Devalued by the internet, where, in one afternoon, you can download the music catalog of your dreams. Devalued by TV commercials that make you think of a Ford, of all things, whenever you hear Start Me Up by The Stones. Devalued because music is everywhere. It used to be that you'd escape from a hectic day by listening to some music. Now you can't escape the music - it's everywhere! They used to play it between innings at baseball games - now they play it between pitches!!!!
MTV devalued it . I used to like The Police, until I saw their goofball antics in hawaiian shirts and straw hats. Some bands used to be mysterious, but videos took away that mystery when they had the opportunity to add to it. Most music videos wound up looking like a bunch of teenagers goofing with their first video camera. Technology has devalued music. Anyone can make a near professional sounding CD of their 'own' music. They don't even have to know how to play an instrument. When you flood the market, the product loses value. The irony of all this is that -we, the home recording artists, have never had it so good in terms of the availability of lost cost, high quality recording equipment - but there's no place to market it! No one wants to listen to it! No one has time to listen to it! Plus, every tom, dick and harry has Acid or Cool Edit and a sample library and they think they're gonna be the next big thing! I hate to say it, but you better narrow your horizons out there. If you can get a fan base of 100 people, you're doing good.
The market is saturated folks. Music has been devalued. Devalued by the internet, where, in one afternoon, you can download the music catalog of your dreams. Devalued by TV commercials that make you think of a Ford, of all things, whenever you hear Start Me Up by The Stones. Devalued because music is everywhere. It used to be that you'd escape from a hectic day by listening to some music. Now you can't escape the music - it's everywhere! They used to play it between innings at baseball games - now they play it between pitches!!!!
MTV devalued it . I used to like The Police, until I saw their goofball antics in hawaiian shirts and straw hats. Some bands used to be mysterious, but videos took away that mystery when they had the opportunity to add to it. Most music videos wound up looking like a bunch of teenagers goofing with their first video camera. Technology has devalued music. Anyone can make a near professional sounding CD of their 'own' music. They don't even have to know how to play an instrument. When you flood the market, the product loses value. The irony of all this is that -we, the home recording artists, have never had it so good in terms of the availability of lost cost, high quality recording equipment - but there's no place to market it! No one wants to listen to it! No one has time to listen to it! Plus, every tom, dick and harry has Acid or Cool Edit and a sample library and they think they're gonna be the next big thing! I hate to say it, but you better narrow your horizons out there. If you can get a fan base of 100 people, you're doing good.
