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Whatever. I wrote and co-wrote ten albums and my total take was $3. The market is saturated and the way it works means ten get rich for every million artists.
by genewitch 2y ago
Whatever. I wrote and co-wrote ten albums and my total take was $3.
The market is saturated and the way it works means ten get rich for every million artists. I feel as though this has been pretty constant throughout history.
Of course there's a lot of talent out there, "wasted", but I think that's always been the case. How many William Shakesmans did we lose with all the war, famine, disease?
I actually decided I'd probably never write music again after 1-shot making a song about the south Korea coup attempt several months ago. I had the song done before the news really even hit the US. Why would I destroy my own hearing writing music anymore when I can prompt an AI to do it for me, with the same net result - no one cares.
here's the 3-shot remix, the triangle cracks me up so much that i had to upload it https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/coup-detat-symphony-remix https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/coup-detat-symphony-remix
the "original" "1-shot" is on my soundcloud page as well. https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/i-aint-even-writing-music-anymore-byeeee https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/i-aint-even-writing-music-a...
it's in lojban. That's why you can't understand it. Yes. Lojban. Brings a tear to my eye every time i hear it. fkin AI
[0] more my style - hold music for our PBX https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/bew-hold-music https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/bew-hold-music also all my stuff is CC licensed, mostly CC0 at this point.
- Garlef 2y ago> How many William Shakesmans did we lose with all the war, famine, disease? (Just a small comment out of context of the remaining discussion:) Maybe not many? It could be that "cultural attention" is limited and there's not much space at the top anyways. In other words: It might be that there's always a few famous artists that get remembered and the rest is forgotten. Same as winning the world cup: There's always a team that wins and it says nothing about the quality in a universal way. At best it says something about quality relative to the competition. (Not sure I'd fully get behind the argument i composed here. But I found it interesting.)
- megaloblasto 2y agodo you think that if the Beatles never existed, some other group would have absorbed their fame, like a power vacuum being filled? I've wondered this before. Or maybe they just really were that good.
- globnomulous 2y ago> I feel as though this has been pretty constant throughout history. It hasn't. Look up the collapse of the viability of music as a career. Jaron Lanier has written on this.