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He's talking about supporting all the hangers-on, the stylist, make-up artist, managers etcetera. That is purely perpetuating the parasitic industry that has la
by rickmb 15y ago
He's talking about supporting all the hangers-on, the stylist, make-up artist, managers etcetera. That is purely perpetuating the parasitic industry that has latched itself onto popular music.
Disrupting the industry in my view means separating that stuff from the production and distribution of the actual music, so that those of use that wish to make and/or consume music are not forced to sustain and entire industry we neither want nor need, and has fuck all to do with music.
That BTW doesn't mean I don't recognize an act like Lady Gaga as a legitimate artistic and commercial product, I just think that it belongs in an entirely different industry where music is secondary. One most musicians wouldn't want a part of if there were other options, and most music lovers don't want to pay for (because most of the money you pay for "legal" music goes to that industry, not the musicians who's music you actually want). Making that happen is the disruption consumers and musicians are waiting for.