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ZA REVOLUCIJA!
Today we stand in the middle of a cultural and historical turning point in the western world. A revolution is brewing and the rays of a new era creeps over the horizon as it dawns upon us. We are on the brink of change and economic upheaval and in this important decades, our society is about to change... drastically... FOREVER.
Yes it will change and this time, for a change, it has nothing to do with Obama.
I'm, of course, referring to the commercialist music industry of our times.
But first, let me give you a small summary of what it looks like today. In many places, as I see it, especially in the pop genre and for women in the hip hop genre, it doesn't matter whether you have real musical talent or not if you do not have the right looks. While I don't say it's like this with every case, it's quite common in these two genres. The rock and rap world though, have thankfully been spared from this shallowness.
In any case, that's how it looks today and where do I now mean to get with this? I'll tell you. Point is, that we now live in a society in which the musical world doesn't value your true talent(s) and much as it values your looks. Just admit it. A pop artist or a female hip hopper won't get anywhere today without corporate backing, and who do corporations back? People who look good. People whom they can put up on television and ads and billboards and advertize for to capture the public's attention. Even if you have the best bloody voice in the world, you won't get anywhere if you don't look like a dreamy little pretty boy of sex bomb of a woman. If you look like a weakling, a nerd, a fatsoe or and just don't have the right facial features, you won't get anywhere. Why? Because the corporations control the music market and thus caters only the pretty, whom the corporations choose to support. Value is thus placed more on the LUCK of being born with the right looks than on the actual TALENT of said aspiring artist.
And that, my fellow humans, is a very sad fact indeed.
But now, we're coming to a turning point. Why? Simple.
Becuase of the internet, broadband and peer-to-peer filesharing, which has promoted a mindset among us youths and adolescents that music, just like pictures, should be free and equally available to all. Kinda like how you can search for the on Google or how you can find independents putting them up for free display on DeviantArt.
The reason this is going to change things is becuase we're increasing and we don't feel like the records the companies and artists sell are worth are green little papers anymore. Oh no! We want it for free!
An ethically speaking, at least when it comes to musicians, it perfectly justifiabla. Especially with how it look now. For why should somebody who's just because of the plain luck of being born the the right face and body make billions of dollars when tons of more talented people cannot because they, due to their only average looks, receive little to no publicity at all? It's not fair. It's just not FUCKING FAIR!
Now though, we get alarming report that the record companies are loosing millions of not milliard or maybe even billions of dollars because their clients' songs are downloaded freely through as-of-right-now illegal ways: P2P filesharing. They're ferociously combating it, but their resistance will in the long rung only prove futile, for they cannot halt the mental change that's happening in our society: the notion that music should be free and available to all.
Even parties have formed around this principle. Now, eventually, I foresee a society where music is free, just like pictures are today, and the music industries looks completely different. Let me tell you what I see.
I see a world where the major record labels of our time are merely historical footnotes, where the big companies such as those run by multi-milliardare Bert Karlsson have gone under due to low to no profitability. Where there are no Madonna's and Paris Hilton's, who clearly are nothing but incompetents who're simply on the public scene because of lucky factors such as looks or wealthy backgrounds.
I see a world were there are no records or discs being sold, where there are no MP3's downloaded for money. I see a world where musicians work like sculptors and painter and photographers, that they don't gain their pupularity through radio or television, but by freely distributing their content on the internet and letting people experience their pure awesomeness. Where they then are invited by concert arrangers, just like painters and photographers are invited by art galleries, and where they then play there other exclusive works for a pay only at those live concerts.
I see a world where music has returned to its status of a respected and dignified art form and departed from the craze of the profit driven, half-ass quality, commercialist crap it is today!
In this world, an artist like Paris Hilton or Madonna, who rely almost purely on commercial backing, would never have gotten an inch. Becuase without their big and rich corporate sponsors, they would suck. They already suck, the only good they're for is masturbating... or not really. They're not even good for that (although some people beg to differ).
No, in this world, popularity would be EARNED through either talent, creativity, hard work or a combination of all these. In this world, those who would survive would be folks like ICP. Yes, ICP, my fellow humans. Even though I don't personally like their musical style (which doesn't mean I dislike them however), I DO recognize them as TRUE ARTISTS. These people have earned their fame the hard way. They didn't sell out to the big corps, they played at underground live concerts and garnered pupularity through small scale sale of their albumst. They did, through and despite all shitstorms of extreme public criticism, climb to the top and have in the end become famous and recognized artists in their own right. Now these, ladies and gentlement, THESE people would be the ones to SURVIVE AND SUCCEED in this world, becuase they've truthfully EARNED THEIR SUCCESS!
While it wouldn't be the same approach in which the really did come to the top, it would be similiar. Now figure an amateur painter of photographer puts out lots of his work on DeviantArt and garners a huge and/or dedicated following. In the end, his popularity grows so much that he starts to blip under the radar scope of small art galleries, who contact him to have his work exhibited for money. Accepting, he moves up the ladder beginning at the small corner gallery and ending up at the Louvre or d'Orsey or something like that. THAT, my fellow humans, is EARNED FAME.
Now in my world, it'd be the same for musicians and artists. You put your tracks up on the internet, garner a following, have an arranger contact you to display you talents on stage in return for a nice pay and there you go. It'd work perfectly! And I think everybofy here agrees that popularity is best gained on the internet, especially if it's for free.
And there you go, we've got a music industry based on quality rather than quantity. An industry based more on talent than on luck. More on lyrics and melody than looks and nice asses. We've got a MOTHAFUCKIN' AWESOME PLACE TO LIVE!
We've got VÄRLDENS STÄLLE!
And this my friends, is the change we're all part of. We're part of history, my fellow humans. We, the little people, are writing history as we speak. As we download illegaly the property of the big corporations and depraving them of their profits, we're changing society. We have started a cultural revolution and WE CANNOT BE STOPPED!
Face it, corporates: Resistance is futile!
When it comes to computer games though, that's a whole different question. But if you ask me about the music industry, I love the way things are heading. >=D
P.S: Maybe I should also saving all my funny texts and content on this account and reposting them on a blog in case I'd be banned from here for promoting filesharing and propagating.
Yeah... guess I'll go do that right now.
Till next time then mates... provided there will be a one.
Cheers!
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