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Money--overall monetary takes are down across the board. It was never easy for artists to make a living, but now it's ferociously miserable. Innovation--its d

by bsder 2y ago

Money--overall monetary takes are down across the board. It was never easy for artists to make a living, but now it's ferociously miserable. Innovation--its documented that everything is now IP sequels and the number of original things is way down. Impact--which artists and decades were playing at the last wedding you went to? Yeah, thought so. I'm reminded of the punk documentary where the original punks were horrified that the people who came after and idolized them missed the whole point.

krapp 2y ago
>Money--overall monetary takes are down across the board. If this is the case across the board, it can't be an indicator of decreasing quality. It's more likely that with the internet and streaming, box office revenues simply matter less than they once did. Everyone is competing with streaming and the internet, no one wants to go to a theater anymore. Same with music. No one cares about Billboard anymore now that everything is on Soundcloud and Spotify, and no matter how niche someone's tastes are, there's probably an entire ecosystem of content for it. I recently found out dungeon synth was a thing. >Innovation--its documented that everything is now IP sequels and the number of original things is way down. Where is it documented? Show me the documentation. I doubt that if you combined all movies releasing this year in theaters, and everything on every streaming service, that even half would be sequels. >Impact--which artists and decades were playing at the last wedding you went to? Yeah, thought so. What's your thesis here? That no modern music is ever played at weddings? That music played at weddings is an objective measure of artistic quality and cultural impact? Why even bother asking this question if you're going to answer on my behalf? But as far as impact goes, again, it's simply impossible for any music to have the same impact in the internet age as it did pre-internet. That isn't an indicator of quality going down, it's an indicator of the scope of available media becoming so broad and diffuse that no one thing, regardless of quality, can capture the market like it did when pop culture was more centralized.
parl_match 2y ago
On all three, I'd like to point out that I covered these in my original post. You expect to look at box office takes, source your media from large studios, and go to weddings between boring people. Again, the world is changing. You have not.

by bsder 2y ago

krapp 2y ago

>Money--overall monetary takes are down across the board. If this is the case across the board, it can't be an indicator of decreasing quality. It's more likely that with the internet and streaming, box office revenues simply matter less than they once did. Everyone is competing with streaming and the internet, no one wants to go to a theater anymore. Same with music. No one cares about Billboard anymore now that everything is on Soundcloud and Spotify, and no matter how niche someone's tastes are, there's probably an entire ecosystem of content for it. I recently found out dungeon synth was a thing. >Innovation--its documented that everything is now IP sequels and the number of original things is way down. Where is it documented? Show me the documentation. I doubt that if you combined all movies releasing this year in theaters, and everything on every streaming service, that even half would be sequels. >Impact--which artists and decades were playing at the last wedding you went to? Yeah, thought so. What's your thesis here? That no modern music is ever played at weddings? That music played at weddings is an objective measure of artistic quality and cultural impact? Why even bother asking this question if you're going to answer on my behalf? But as far as impact goes, again, it's simply impossible for any music to have the same impact in the internet age as it did pre-internet. That isn't an indicator of quality going down, it's an indicator of the scope of available media becoming so broad and diffuse that no one thing, regardless of quality, can capture the market like it did when pop culture was more centralized.

parl_match 2y ago

On all three, I'd like to point out that I covered these in my original post. You expect to look at box office takes, source your media from large studios, and go to weddings between boring people. Again, the world is changing. You have not.