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Topic: The decade when music died (Read 7130 times)
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lakota.james
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I'm not sure how related this is to the topic, but I think Hannah Montana needs to be shot in the face. You can't walk into a store without seeing her stuff everywhere.
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SweetSassyMolassy
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In regards to music, I think it's the same trend you see everywhere. Big companies know what will sell, and the want to make money. So once something is a proven formula, they'll run it into the ground for as long as they can. After all, producing music today has become quite expensive, and they have shareholders to answer to. Producing music is pretty cheap compared to how expensive it was 30 years ago. That's why there's such a huge pool of artists to choose from. Making CDs and recording on the internet is so easy.
While the music business has become a lot more monolithic and commercial than it was in earleir decades the main complaint you have really isn't anything new. It just means your old  Old people always dislike whatever new-fangled crap the youngsters are listening to, and remember their own youth (and their own new-fangled crap) wistfully. Your forebears probably weren't too fond of Nirvana or any other band you care to name. But back to game music, which is much more enjoyable. Every now and then a game theme will find itself onto my playlist, and it's usually nice in a nostalgic way. I guess my main problem with game music is that I like lyrics, and they tend to not have them. |
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I am not always understand about what you speak, unfortunately.
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SweetSassyMolassy
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Oh I agree, producing music is cheap(ish). But when it's cheap and all sorts of folk can do it, you need to be really good at marketing, and that's expensive. And because people will only buy what they've heard about, you need to sink loads of money into this. Then there's the artists. Once someone starts selling well, you need to give them more and more money. The lifestyle of an star is becoming exponentially more expensive.
So unfortunate. And it's only adding to their ego, which adds to the problem.
I guess it's a question of quality and quantity? Back when it was hard to get out there you needed a good product. Now it's easy to get out so everyone is doing it, and many because they want to be famous rather than because they love their music. So it all comes down to who can shout the loudest, so to speak.
Yes, exactly.
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