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Old 11-21-2016, 01:05 PM  
kane
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Watch this video. It will explain WHY music sucks so bad these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0wuwJBdMI

This is why I ONLY listen to music recorded before 2000 (with a few rare exceptions).

I also think "the powers that be" do not want "music" as we old farts remember it anymore. Why have something like a song that could inspire people to, you know, protest all this SHIT that is happening everywhere? Only causes the population to get upset and, you know, stop BUYING. Nope, better to offer nothing but the same old shit year after year. Keeps the sheeple calm and their wallets open. Sad.
IMO it isn't so much that the powers that be don't want to release music that will inspire people to protest the shit music that is being released, it is that the business model has changed so it has become harder for the record companies to make money. When I was a kid it was all about the album. Labels signed acts, put out albums and helped the artists build up an audience by promoting their music. If the band hit and started selling a lot of albums the label profited by selling those albums. Now the industry is based on the single. If an artists hits instead of selling a buying the full album fans just buy a song or two that they like. Add in streaming services like Pandora and Spotify and Youtube and there are a lot of people who don't pay for any music. On top of that piracy and the ease of downloading full albums and you have an industry that can't afford to spend 2-5 years developing an act.

These days it is not uncommon for an act to get signed and release a single. if the single does well the act then gets to record a full album. If not, they get dumped before they even make an album.
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