WARNING: Those who make the “Continuing History of New Music” radio show about music in the 21st century on music / for anyone who does not hear a podcast series.
This weekend marks the final of 10 parts The ongoing date of new music The most important thing is the most important thing since the beginning of the millennium, events, moments, people and series of technological series.
It was an interesting journey back in the last 25 years. It was hard enough to fix the list. But how can you order one of 100? What is the most important of all items in the list?
I thought long and hard about it. Was music piracy? Death of David Bowie? Last tragic hip tour? The application of iPod and smartphones? I wanted to finish the series in a high note, but at the end I had to go with a real downer. I apologize in advance but I think you will see what I mean.
When the 2000s began, we paid between $ 10 and $ 20 for a CD. To get this piece of plastic, we should work in the record in a record store for x hours to earn enough money to move to the time and place. Because the music is so expensive, we were very special to how we spent this money. What artists did they deserve our financial investment?
We then returned home from the store and put the CD to the stereo. We listened to the album again and again until we can back and forward all the songs. Hopefully, we ended up to like more than we hate. However, if the balance had passed the wrong way, it was our artist’s financial investment failure.
Physical music libraries also had a treasure. They did not reflect not only our personalities, histories and emotions, but also expensive to assemble. You can know someone’s pain with your car and with a valuable CD connector.
Not already. Today the music flows like water. Simply open the stream crane and it happens to a dream that never ends here. The latest figures say that there are 202 million songs on any of the streaming music platforms, downloaded about 100,000 new songs every day. Three million new songs this month and 36,000,000 per year.
This is a lot of things. Way too much. The result is to increase the consumer to a crop that is not the end of anything (or very close to anything. When this happens, the product is devalued in any way in any way. And the music took place.
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People have changed their passionate music, but because we have to pay for it, but our main relationship with music.
For example, weed spotify. The monthly individual subscription in this country is less than a CD price in the old days. Now it allows you to access every song that is written to us monthly.
Don’t like the song to serve by algorithm? Click the toggle button with the kidnapping. And throws a lot of people. According to some Spotify numbers, I saw a while ago, they will jump a new song that users will not know 25 percent in the first five seconds. The other 29 percent will jump in 10 seconds. Another 35% will pass the song when the song was 30 seconds. Someone would do it when you pay a full price for this piece of music?
Here’s something else to think: You are listening to music or simply hearing Is this? The listening is entering your ears and concentrates what the artist means what you want and how the songs feel. Hearing puts something in your earphones to make your trip to work. Both work, attention, learn and background music just to fill in silence.
No Investment + Risk + Risk + Today’s shortened attention spans + Hearing vs. Listening and equations for both art forms and commodities are completed.
Oh, it can still be emotionally valued and when it comes to culture is still very important; This is an important part of our existence. But because we paid as we use, I postulate it with the same respect.
For talent and labor, artists are also given little thinking to compensate. We often hear about music lovers that complain that many platforms do not pay much. But the artists will be better paid and the answer “Hell, no!”
Think now that most of the same people do not pay for their music. SPOTIFY’s free ad support is to pay for their music. In other words, they may love their music, but they do not have enough to pay for it.
The music for consumers requires a lot of money, but it has become a cheap valuable, low marja commodity that provides less compensation. This situation has little significance to change at any time soon. And it will continue how music is built and for a long time.
This is the devaluation of music – so far this is my choice for the most important thing that will happen to music. Sorry to be such a bummer.
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