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Post by donr on Sept 18, 2015 9:19:07 GMT -6
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Post by b1 on Sept 18, 2015 10:11:06 GMT -6
An interesting, yet disturbing article. I've long noticed a troubling feature of this corporate "cookie cutter" industry. Most vocalists on CCM radio have the same voice timbre and can be easily imagined that one vocalist is subbing out to different bands; the same with both male & female. It's like a death spiral for the more intelligent listeners. Yet, as the article mentions, many people no longer have the ability to take note, and even find comfort that everything is too familiar - right down to the regurgitated beats! Bizarro world!
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Post by swurveman on Sept 18, 2015 11:21:20 GMT -6
"But almost no pop celebrities write their own hits." And internet celebrities trying to cross over to the mainstream. " “Look What You Started' doesn’t exist anymore, technically. We don’t own the songs." I think it is sad for a our generation who got to experience live bands, who wrote and played their own songs in a vibrant touring model across America in towns/cities which all had good sized live venues. Those venues are still there, but for my town there were two music concerts this summer- Frankie Vallie and Harry Connick Jr. in our venue. I wonder if this generation, raised on American Idol and assembly line pop and having little local live alternatives is going to want something more mature at some point in time. There's a soulfulness that is gone from the days when bands brought it to our town and we gathered together collectively to witness and celebrate it. The digitization of America may have laid that to waste. We'll see. Sorry for the rant...and apologies if it was a bit over the top, but sometimes I feels really bad for musicians who once had a larger footprint in our culture. |
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Post by phrazemaster on Oct 7, 2015 23:35:14 GMT -6
Wow! What an eye-opening article!!! Thanks donr!
What hope is there for single-person songwriters now? The money is taken out of it, and the artists are not going to want songs that aren't written by teams of experts. I feel like putting my drum in the closet now and only playing for me. Sniff.
No, really.
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