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The Music Bizness (Yikes!)
We live in an age of form over content and style over substance. Anybody can make a slick sounding recording... today it's all production. |
A couple of tidbits to make you wonder...
The Future of American Music?
Never have so few companies controlled so much of the music played on the radio and for sale at retail stores. Music seems to have split in two - the homogenous corporate product that is spoonfed to consumers and the diverse independent music that finds and fuels devoted fans online and at clubs across the country.
Why does mainstream music seems so packaged and repetitive? Do whether corporations really have the power to silence musical innovation? Check out the trailer from this thought-provoking film >> Before the Music Dies 
No Talent? No Problem! How To Create a Sexy Pop Star
This clip shows exactly how pop stars are made in today's music industry. The filmmakers take a beautiful young model - Taylor Hannah - and have her record a song that was written on the spot by the talented and hilarious Steve Poltz.
Taylor may be beautiful, but her vocal is less than perfect. Luckily, “you don’t have to be able to sing, just move your mouth and… they’ll work that out.” With the magic of AutoTune, Taylor’s painful vocal is transformed into a catchy hit custom-crafted for mainstream pop radio… (excerpted from the film "Before the Music Dies")
