Music - Time for a new revolution
In general in the world, people listen to crap. Most people listen to the kind of crap that they play on the radio or on MTV. Most people that like music a lot or have music as a hobby will agree that this music is crap. Well, at least it’s mainstream and that generally means that the people that listen to it doesn’t really care. If you do care you will soon develop your own taste.
Internet makes music more and more accessible. This means that it is easier and easier to find music in any genre which would make it easier and easier to develop your own taste. This is not anything revolutionary or something that I came up with, it’s the Long Tail theory from Chris Andersson.
This should mean that in the future more and more people will think the music that is being played on the radio is shit. We will have a new music revolution and it will crush the big record labels as more and more people will care for nische music and that will demand more artists and a lot more records, a lot more Kinds of records. It will demand a lot less Britney, Madonna or Blink (do they even exist?).
The problem with the Long Tail theory is the only people that really hear about it are avid internet users. Many people only use the internet for browsing YouTube, going on Facebook or Twitter and checking their emails.
I agree with you that mainstream music is… weak. I disagree that we will have a new music revolution. At least not for a while, the big record labels are just too big to crush right now, need to wait until they’ve softened up a little first. Perhaps leave them in soak overnight?
Comment by Nathan — January 27, 2009 @ 11:09 am