Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="mr-ed209" data-source="post: 1266674" data-attributes="member: 14769">I think today's music is shit because large scale producers and recording companies have gotten a monopoly in terms of having massive marketing budgets to promote their artists. In the past, music was more 'organic' because it was harder to advertise. It was dependent on word of mouth or attending gigs to hear it, and then on people taking the physical effort of going out and buying the records. The phenomenon of a 'manufactured pop star' was almost a niche in the early 2000s; now its the vast majority of charting artists, who have ghost writers and teams of personnel behind the scenes pulling all sorts of strings to ensure their talent cash cow can be milked for as much as possible. It's so bad that the 'market' is now so saturated it's difficult to see how new independent artists could ever have the chance of breaking through.</blockquote>