Comments on: Take the 8:15 into the city … http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18789 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18789/comment-page-1#comment-969673 Reader's Write Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:43:27 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18789#comment-969673 Thank you for this editorial that brings back so many memories. Not only that but I think you sort of touch the heart of the matter in music and why it is headed down as far as a popularity goes. My love for music goes back to the late 50's and comes forward from that. Almost without exception, the modern equivalent to the past's famous artists hold no interest to me. There seems to be no mastery of the instrument. Vocals are tuned electronically. So even the worst vocalist can sound like they have had years of training without the effort. It goes deeper than that though. Artists of the 60's and 70's you felt a connection to. They were singing about things relevant in your life. There was a connection there between the artist, the music, and your life. Now that connection is on disconnect. I find no interest in the majority of new music. I find no relevancy at all with rap and hip hop as far as any sort of connection to my life. I don't feel those few I hear on the radio by accident have really paid their dues in mastering anything beyond lyrics. Music and song is more than lyrics...delivery has to be there too. If I want to see dancing, I go to a club. Why pay to see an entertainer who is doing dance moves and lip syncing because it takes so much energy just to pull of the dance moves and there is nothing left for the delivery? Back in the day, I went to concerts and felt I got my money's worth. I would not feel that way today with most of these artists. When I hear the ticket prices for these concert seats I think to myself, they got to be kidding. Live music might be great by the right artists that I care to hear but the ticket prices have gone beyond reason. Some of us actually have to work for a living and don't make stellar wages. That's reality. So I no longer buy music, crap I've had all this time to buy what I wanted long ago. I don't need to replace a cd every time I turn around because it's damaged. Prices for live music are out of my financial range when it comes to some of the bigger names that I would actually care to hear. So I've dropped out of paying for music. I don't need to download what I've over my life bought at least a dozen times before. Music is no longer as relevant in my life as it was when I was younger and it meant more. Artists no longer connect with my life and as a result, I don't connect with them. So the supporting them with money isn't an issue. I've turn to the net now. Another good point in this write up was about the radio. Always had either a good radio or a good receiver. TV didn't matter all that much at the time but music did. I could hear new stuff coming out that tickled my ear buds. I could get underground music being broadcast from colleges and unis where students were learning what it was and took to be in the broadcast industry. Specials that I waited for every weekend just to hear. I don't have that sort of loyalty anymore as none of those types of broadcasts are done now. It's all about the money and that left me behind. It's leaving a whole new generation behind too. College and uni students are now getting the message. Leave music alone. Don't buy. You can't get sued if you aren't dealing with music and it isn't that important in your life. So they've moved on to other means of entertainment. The music industry is the only one really losing out. The artists were screwed from day one of the signing of the contracts. It's all come full circle and now begins to come home to roost. The industries solution? Piracy is the problem. Right. Thank you for this editorial that brings back so many memories. Not only that but I think you sort of touch the heart of the matter in music and why it is headed down as far as a popularity goes. My love for music goes back to the late 50’s and comes forward from that. Almost without exception, the modern equivalent to the past’s famous artists hold no interest to me. There seems to be no mastery of the instrument. Vocals are tuned electronically. So even the worst vocalist can sound like they have had years of training without the effort.

It goes deeper than that though. Artists of the 60’s and 70’s you felt a connection to. They were singing about things relevant in your life. There was a connection there between the artist, the music, and your life. Now that connection is on disconnect. I find no interest in the majority of new music. I find no relevancy at all with rap and hip hop as far as any sort of connection to my life. I don’t feel those few I hear on the radio by accident have really paid their dues in mastering anything beyond lyrics. Music and song is more than lyrics…delivery has to be there too. If I want to see dancing, I go to a club. Why pay to see an entertainer who is doing dance moves and lip syncing because it takes so much energy just to pull of the dance moves and there is nothing left for the delivery?

Back in the day, I went to concerts and felt I got my money’s worth. I would not feel that way today with most of these artists. When I hear the ticket prices for these concert seats I think to myself, they got to be kidding. Live music might be great by the right artists that I care to hear but the ticket prices have gone beyond reason. Some of us actually have to work for a living and don’t make stellar wages. That’s reality.

So I no longer buy music, crap I’ve had all this time to buy what I wanted long ago. I don’t need to replace a cd every time I turn around because it’s damaged. Prices for live music are out of my financial range when it comes to some of the bigger names that I would actually care to hear. So I’ve dropped out of paying for music. I don’t need to download what I’ve over my life bought at least a dozen times before.

Music is no longer as relevant in my life as it was when I was younger and it meant more. Artists no longer connect with my life and as a result, I don’t connect with them. So the supporting them with money isn’t an issue. I’ve turn to the net now.

Another good point in this write up was about the radio. Always had either a good radio or a good receiver. TV didn’t matter all that much at the time but music did. I could hear new stuff coming out that tickled my ear buds. I could get underground music being broadcast from colleges and unis where students were learning what it was and took to be in the broadcast industry. Specials that I waited for every weekend just to hear. I don’t have that sort of loyalty anymore as none of those types of broadcasts are done now. It’s all about the money and that left me behind.

It’s leaving a whole new generation behind too. College and uni students are now getting the message. Leave music alone. Don’t buy. You can’t get sued if you aren’t dealing with music and it isn’t that important in your life. So they’ve moved on to other means of entertainment. The music industry is the only one really losing out. The artists were screwed from day one of the signing of the contracts. It’s all come full circle and now begins to come home to roost. The industries solution? Piracy is the problem. Right.

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