The market is saturated

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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.
 
DimChandeliers said:
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.

well fuck....i mean i dont want to be the one flooding the market...shit ...i dont even have a fan base at all...so what the fuck am i supposed to do??... sucks tho...cause ive "never had it so good" what with my "professional" c.d. of my "own" music....i guess they are kind of pretty when the light hits them just right....oh well.....how is the "sit around on my ass and sulk" market doing these days......maybe i should invest:D
 
Yeah, I'm venting here, ok?
Something has to be done to weed out all the crappy music.
But that's so subjective - who's to say it's crappy?
Maybe IUMA and the like should have a "Completely Worthless"
genre! Hey, they'll prolly get the most hits!
I read an article about 20 years ago that said, in the future, everyone would be making their own music or remixing other ppls to suit their taste - I think we're almost there.
 
:D ..yeah me too....plus.'dimchandeliers" is a cool name..lol
 
dobro said:
"The market is saturated"

That's what sperm think too.

That's exactly what we are !!!
We're all sperm, trying to make that one in a million shot into that egg. Hey, wait....then why are there 6 billion people?
nevermind.
 
I think you have what you mean by "Market".

What I see is an age of regionalization where the individual
music producers are taking control of their own fate.

Sure, the fan bases are going to be smaller, but that doesn't mean that musicians can't make a living at it.

Does everyone on this site record music believing they are
going to be stylin' on some Jamaican beach sippin long cool ones?????????

If so, I'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot of disappointment
around here and the constant bitching about the state of the industry will continue......

There are tons of other options for those willing to put in a little time and effort to try and reshape the way things are.....

Just my opinion..

Graham.
 
I have a fan base of approximately...erm...5...may go to 4 once my daughter gets older and wises up :D
 
analog4 said:
I think you have what you mean by "Market".

What I see is an age of regionalization where the individual
music producers are taking control of their own fate.


Just my opinion..

Graham.

Agreed!!!
This is from a reply I wrote in songwriters forum this morning:

"I think you'll find more artists will have small regional followings."
 
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