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In Reply to: RE: pathetic state of affairs, from vice president of amazon music posted by Skeptic on February 10, 2017 at 12:25:59
Look up PAYOLA SCANDAL and just substitute the word "Amazon's music streaming process" for the words "disc jockey." It's the same ol' song... they'll tell people what to listen to and charge the artists and "record labels" for that, then automtically charge your VISA $1.29 for the crappy tune. Funny, but that's about the same as a 45 cost in the 1960's IIRC.
Payola crucified Alan Freed and made a big stink in Congress and nothing-- NOTHING-- has changed except the shape of the knobs and making ripping the 'Merkun public off fully automatic.
To quote the keen observer of the American scene Hunter S. Thompson: "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a dark side..."
As regards the value of the manure spread by Billboard "Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read." Frank Zappa
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Boom favorite band is U2??? I am afraid that he needs to put in a water that doesn't run to deep category, for his voice recognition!!!
Of course I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer because I not sure what the original poster is trying to get across???
Well it is time for me put on my favorite Monkeys album and rock the house.
Enjoy the ride
Tom
I posted the link for it, above. I took the point here to be that Amazon, through some vast inscrutable mechanism of "Cloud Computing," is going to choose songs for erstwhile radio listeners in response to vague suggestions. Such a system is subject to corruption on every level.My point was that the music business have always been corrupt, on every level, since its inception.
That the verbal suggestions to Amazon Dots are to be yelled across the room to the device, as it sits listening constantly to our homes' every sound, makes it somewhat terrifying. My brilliant daughter is professional in the delivery side of the on-line entertainment industry in Hollywood and I offer these observations derived from my chats with her:
1. The on-line entertainment industry smells an unlimited pipeline of money to be sucked out of the American consumer and the competing businesses will do ANYTHING to keep their market share, and
2. She intuits that she and her boyfriend have both been fed tailored marketing based on words they have *spoken* over their cellphones, computer, Skype, etc.
So the music business is listening. GO ahead, buy a "Dot" and connect to them, if you choose. Or, you could just play some records...
Edits: 02/11/17
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