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How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics
- dazzawazza 18y agoIs any more evidence required that the music industry has no respect for it's audience?
- iamdave 18y agoOne word: indie.
- swombat 18y agoActually, while reading this article, I found myself wondering whether these guys might have made up the email... I wouldn't put it past them, and a single piece of evidence is a bit thin. That said, I agree that the recording industry deserves to go out of business. I just like to hear a little bit more supporting evidence than a single email that a couple of activists claim they received.
- davidw 18y agoI don't know... If they're not going to make any money on distribution because of free downloads, something like this becomes more attractive.
- tdavis 18y agoWho cares? Today's Pop music isn't music anyway. It's all specifically crafted to make it extremely popular so people will buy albums for singles, listen to the same songs 100 times on the radio, and buy tickets to overdone concerts with half-naked women dancing and crazy lights flashing everywhere. Britney Spear's (does she still "make music?") next hit single could be an advertisement for Coke and I couldn't care less. In fact, I'm confident most fans wouldn't even notice.
- unalone 18y agoNot to squabble on generic terms with you, but pop music is still music. Does it focus on entirely different things than other genres of music? Yes. Does that mean that you can easily dismiss it as not having any musical merit whatsoever? Of course. However, it takes talent to make a good pop song. It's a radically different talent than the sort that goes into other music, but pop musicians are talented. They're just looked down upon because their music is so lacking in terms of depth. But that too contributes to WHY they're so popular. The creation of pop music is a study unto itself.
- tdavis 18y agoRight, I'm not saying it doesn't take talent. Musically, though, the songs have no merit, so I don't really consider Pop music to be music; it's more like smart marketing or something. For instance, would you consider the songs in Coke commercials to be... music? I mean, it's music in the dictionary sense of the word I suppose, but nobody with any reasonable amount of taste would call it that. It's just an advertisement.
- gabrielleydon 18y agoThis has been going on since the birth of the record industry. The only thing different about the present and the past is the volume of chatter about the subject.
- DabAsteroid 18y agoPerhaps it is different in an age of free, all-you-can-eat, high-quality copies of commercial audio.
- pmorici 18y agoWell this just exposes the musicians for the charlatans they are when they say things like "I only want to sell my album as a whole on iTunes so as not to sacrifice the artistic integrity."
- olavk 18y agoBecause all musicians are One.
- pmorici 18y agoI didn't use the word "all"
- helveticaman 18y agoTo be fair, there are a few musicians for whom this is true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album-oriented_rock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album-oriented_rock. Led Zeppelin albums, for instance, are worth buying in whole.
- BrandonM 18y agoI totally agree with this point. Putting together a coherent, musical album is largely a lost art. Just listen to any old Led Zeppelin or Rush album (particularly [Led Zeppelin IV] and A Farewell to Kings + Hemispheres) and compare it to a modern rock album by a band like Nickelback or Papa Roach and there is simply no comparison.
- DabAsteroid 18y agoAnalogy: http://www.funatiq.com/images/david-mcdonalds-statue.jpg http://www.funatiq.com/images/david-mcdonalds-statue.jpg
- zandorg 18y agoIt's not in the article, but the 60s Ray Davis band Kinks had Lola (Lola... Coca Cola).