This morning, I was subjected to that All About That Bass song. Im pretty sure my IQ dropped after hearing it. Yikes. That of course, reminded me of this which I read yesterday morning and found to be spot on. Say what you want about the music business days of yore, it is no coincidence that the quality of music we are being subjected to these days is directly correlated with the fact that talentless hacks have access to getting their music heard. Yes, there is good music being made these days. But the world will never see another Beatles, Led Zeppelin or Nirvana. And that bums me out. I have been a record producer since 1966, so i can speak with the experience of history. In spite of all the stories and myths about how unfair and horrible record companies were prior to the new world of the internet and streaming, the old model, as flawed as it might have appeared was responsible for facilitating the entire history of recorded music. From Louis Armstrong to Michael Jackson, it was the structure of discovery and development that defined the record business. The pecking order that was in place during these years made us all better at what we did. If you were going to make it, you had to have your s___ together. It drove the most talented, the hardest working, the best and the brightest to achieve the results that now comprise the catalogues of the streaming services. Somehow in spite of the snakes and hustlers that sometimes ran the business, what was created was a body of work of great value and beauty. What has the new model created? – Stewart Levine - Record Producer
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:27:35 +0000
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