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| From | matty karas <mkaras@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: Here's the Low Down on Owsley |
| Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:40:57 -0500 |
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> In any event, here's my view of why the record business is tanking:
>
> 1) The economy sucks. People don't have the disposable income they are
> accustomed to, so they're not spending money on anything like they used
> to.
i'll buy that.
> 2) The music sucks.
but i won't buy that. if you're going to argue that the industry is tanking because it's making bad music, then you're going to have to be prepared to argue that when the industry was soaring, it was making good music. which means you're going to have to argue that the greatest music ever made was made in the late 1990s, 'cause more records -- way more records -- were sold in that era than at any time before or since. you're going to have to further argue that, even though music sucks in 2003, it sucked that much more in 1966 or 1967 or 1977 or 1984 or (pick your favorite year), because a lot more albums are being sold in 2003 than were sold in any of those years.
i have a funny feeling that's not where you were trying to go.
the music sucks? tell that to 50 cent fans, or eminem fans, or jay-z fans, or no doubt fans, or wilco fans, or rapture fans, or white stripes fans, or missy elliott fans, or felix da housecat fans, or ceee-lo fans, or soundtrack of our lives fans, or ... you get the drift. it's all pop music, and they're all pop fans, and though you may not like all of it, and you certainly as hell don't have to, it *doesn't* all suck, and it certainly as hell isn't why the industry is tanking. i mean, yeah, paul mccartney made a nearly unlistenable live album last year (i tried listening; i really did), but i don't think the industry was counting on that one to save it's sorry ass.
matty
p.s. has anyone else noticed how much the current santana/michelle branch single sounds like the style council's "my ever changing moods"? and i mean that in the best of all possible ways. it's a fantastic single.
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