Is Music dying???!
Question: People are so quick to diss Hip Hop, "Sells are down" Blah blah. But they don't mention that the sells are down for all music. They diss hip hop and say "all the new artists are commercial pop artists" when if you ask around alot of people have this opinion about thier fav music. Have coorperations ruined music, period? Are the marketing guys putting an intelligence ceiling on the public and not giving anyone a choice? Is the 16 to 30 yro deomgraphic still relavant? (The highest selling CD of 06 was high school musical, the industry will always pander to who spend the money)
Answers: People are so quick to diss Hip Hop, "Sells are down" Blah blah. But they don't mention that the sells are down for all music. They diss hip hop and say "all the new artists are commercial pop artists" when if you ask around alot of people have this opinion about thier fav music. Have coorperations ruined music, period? Are the marketing guys putting an intelligence ceiling on the public and not giving anyone a choice? Is the 16 to 30 yro deomgraphic still relavant? (The highest selling CD of 06 was high school musical, the industry will always pander to who spend the money)
The problem that you face with music is when it's treated as a commodity instead of a form of art. A lot of people "buy" their bands they way they buy cereal: the look, taste and convenience. Historically, commercial labels and pop culture have just taken truly innovative forms of music and have co-opted them into something polished, easy to sell and is digestible.
I recently just read Jeff Chang's book - Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hiphop Generation. There is a chapter that talks about the point at which mainstream (read: usually white) culture picked up on hiphop. It points out the smash crossover successes of big names like Run DMC, Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow and, to a lesser extent, Sugarhill Gang. Many hiphop fans agree that the '82-'84 period was when the Big Six record labels realized that this was a market that could be tapped for big dollars. Fast forward to today: White Americans are still the biggest consumers of major label hiphop albums.
The same can be said for punk at the tail end of the 70s and into the 80s. There was grunge in the 90s. The music currently being deemed as 'emo' is far removed from the likes of Rites of Spring, Indian Summer, Frail, Promise Ring, Orchid and other bands of the time.
When art becomes commodity, it must be packaged and sold as a consumable item. I'm not here to debate over what defines good or bad music. I'm also speaking from the perspective of a rabid music fan and what I see from a lot of Americans.
With the Internet, music didn't die ... it reinvented itself. Musicians and bands can build buzz and exposure through their own Internet-based publicity. Yeah, this does bring everyone with an instrument out of the woodwork, but it's completely blown the stranglehold of traditional distribution outlets. This is why the RIAA is rabid enough to sue single mothers and college students over having 7-10 mp3 files downloaded from a honeypot peer-to-peer site.
Music isn't dying. On the surface, it's becoming deluged with more and more saccharine and polish. It has to be easier to smell, eat, digest and swallow, not too far removed from microwaveable food. How it got to the plate is irrelevant.
Think of music as an art form rather than an industry. The traditional music industry goverened by the majors is definitely dying. Music itself is flourishing, partly due to the quantity of avaiable music. That's going to bring out a lot of mediocrity, and in the same breath, it has to be just that more digestible for old men in suits to get you to buy a $20 disc where one quarter of the back of the jewel liner is taken up by an FBI warning.
from what i hear
80s music is making its way back
rap is dying down
and rock is in
thats what i hear
Its because everyone and anyone can be a musician, composer, producer, what have you. Everyone and anyone can illegally download music from the internet.
And Kudos to High School Musical even though it was lame.
Music is tied into whats going on with our world. What are we doing. We are becoming more and more lazy. So our music reflects that. We are increasingly greedy, our music reflects that too. See, where I'm going. Music is no longer an art, but a hobby.
Music is not dyind do to sells .No music genre is dying of course its obviuos the industry heads are watering down everything ,and sells have dropped across the board due to burning and copying music .Now you can get any artist any album free.As a producer and artist i feel that this is the thing that will kill music because there will be a dramatic drop in artist income and it wont be as many artist out there in about 50 years it wont be so glorified to be a music star.And the quality will cintinue to decrease in all catagories as long as people keep buying these water downed albums stop supporting majors and start supporting independent labels , because right now all of the majors are in the same boat just sell records not good music.
hmm u may be right i kinda figured music is a oart sof everyones life n people who arent very into music are weird i think there arent enough new ideas coming out everyones singning about the same stuff n now its all emo but i never thought of it as dying tho just getting worse
The music is not dying. The sells are down but the companies are still racking in money from concert sales and the newly money maker, ringtone sales. I mention that because if the company is still making money off the artist, the artist will keep putting out cd's.
The 16 to 30 year demographic is a little too big off a gap because people dont start really listening to music till there teens. Those who are after 30 are relevant though because they grew up listening to Nas and others that still have me, who is 18 years of age, waiting for the next cd they will release.
The higest selling cd was High School musical because of the fact that the children that want it and the 35-40 year old parents that are buying are not running to the bootleg man down the street, asking for fake copy.
There are always going to be an audience for everything and anyone.
Nothing really ever dies it just loses its luster.
I don't get it? Why are you lumping in rap with music?