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In Reply to: RE: I'm Not Surprised At All.......... posted by Todd Krieger on July 27, 2015 at 18:45:08
Per the article consumption is UP, it's sales and revenue that is down.
Dave
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The music itself is also "disposable" relative to 50 years ago.... The "worth" of good popular music back then was deemed more valuable to mainstream consumers than the music that's being put out today.....
There's a lot more quantity now, and music is cheap.... So the "consumption" is up. But timeless music is what people are willing to pay for. People will pay a few bucks for a song to be cherished for a lifetime. But won't pay a nickel for a song that's for the moment but to be abandoned and forgotten in a couple months.
People are no more willing to pay for timeless music today than any other type. You may pine for the likes of "The Hippie Hippie Shake" but quality is not the issue, and in many respects quality *follows* the economics rather than the other way around, which is why the current situation ought to be of concern to those who care about music.Dave
Edits: 07/28/15
You and I may not entirely agree on the broader issue here, but I sure do agree with this. The most commercially successful musicians and the ones who will eventually be seen as "timeless" are not completely separate sets of individuals, but there sure are differences in the two lists. The same is true in the other arts.
People today don't even know the "timeless" stuff even exists..... The media hides it from the masses.
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