----- Original Message ----- From Caedmon Foy Date Fri, 02 Apr 2004 02:34:23 +1000 To audities@smoe.org Subject Re: More musicians lose jobs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My 2 cents: With all my respect Yes, I believe that the people that work in majors and indies, have the best at heart either being making monies or trying to estiablish market ground. I work in the bottom of the industry in a place that is far from most.. and know or I think I feel what the buyer wants: they look for something that relates to them in their own personal lives.. and they don't care where they get it.. they just want to feel safe in the fact that they are not alone in their boring little lives in their boring little own soctiety, they just want to relate & feel just like everybody else.They just want to belong...and music gives them the power to connect with people that they might never have wanted to connect with before.... I have for only been in this list for a very short time and have cafefully watched the discusssions of people that are in the know... however we are not the people that purchase the produce.. we can go on and talk about who's the best or who is the worst but it's only for a matter of discusssion. For example the FOW discussion: has it not been about POP music's goal about pushing grounds between what is right and what is wrong with the world...that's why groups like this come about??? or do we take it as a personal attack on what we believe? C I believe that the powers that are on this list can make a difference for better or worse .....IMO. Subject: Re: More musicians lose jobs > In a message dated 3/31/2004 10:16:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, > audities-owner@smoe.org writes: > < releasingthe most vanilla music imaginable so that each act > appeals to a broader > spectrum of people.