Contemporary music is like a sugar-coated chocolate treat, mass produced in a factory from a recipe formulated via machine, never touched by human hands, using ingredients that are six processes beyond anything recognisable as edible food, preserved in a vacuum wrapper and branded with a logo designed by psychologists to get the most out of you.
Real music is like your mother's home cooking, with fingerprints where she has nipped off the end of the pastry, filled with things she had in the cupboard and the inconsistencies of the oven leave a golden gradient along the crust.
So what do you want? Spend an hour being enriched by the scent of a raising pie? Or spend 65p in a vending machine to bleach your brain with a 20 second hit?
Fast-paced life, people don't think/feel anymore. Everything is "instant", a lot of music nowadays is like fast food. There's no bar anymore. Great post, musicians will feel you with this post! :)
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well said, I like the metaphors. Sadly, there is SO much authentic, genuine and amazing music out there that doesn't get the recognition or playtime that it deserves. That's why supporting independent and local musicians, singers, songwriters or any of the arts is so important.. in my opinion. Cheers!
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I agree. I attempt to be one myself. It's the conflict between refusing to pay the game but never getting your music heard, or sacrificing your music to play the game in order to get heard.
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"Real music is like your mother's home cooking, with fingerprints where she has nipped off the end of the pastry, filled with things she had in the cupboard and the inconsistencies of the oven leave a golden gradient along the crust."
... That has got to be the most brilliant analogy I've read this year. :-) Beautiful thoughts.
My view on this issue will always relate to the quantity (...more than quality) of the audience. A massive audience will always be "fed" by a "McDonald's" kind of music industry, just as a nice gourmet little restaurant will always have a small base of regular customers that seek that particular flavor.
Maybe decentralized smart contract platforms like soundchain, musicoin, ascribe or artlist (... and many others) could help make a change in the future as blockchain technology grows. Independent and original artist might get a chance to be exposed to a larger specific audience and receive direct benefit from it. What do you think?
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Thanks for your reply. I hope you're right.
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Money is a great form of motivation, unfortunately it does help ruin things and people in the process!
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Sadly true, Jack
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I am Groot! :D
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Upvoted in total sad agreement.
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I don't know, the majority of modern music is not like this imo.
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Such as? I'm sure we'd be glad to hear it.
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There are thousands of artists who are killing it. To give you an example, BADBADNOTGOOD (ofcourse musical taste is subjective). There is so much innovative music this day and age, all you have to do is go and look for it.
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Exactly, you have to go and look for it... whereas the contemporary rubbish being shoved in our faces follows the metaphor above.
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