Just finished listening to CD Baby Podcast it is my all time favorite podcast and I wish there was a new episode every day.
However David Gray made me ill,
I realize he represents the reality of music biz, And this is the way it is. He even seemed like a nice guy. Well, at least now I have a little insight as to why pop music is so….soulless. So much of the process is taken from the artist and put in the hands of the bean counters, publicists and producers. In the American Idol model so much opportunity is given to those that are made and not to anyone who has anything to say through the art of music. Today’s podcast only strengthens my belief that the corporate music machine just keeps pumping out more of the same homogenized vanilla crap.
I realize this is a total rant and that I probably sound like sour grapes from an old has-been. Or more likely an old never was, never will be. No I just long for the day when music rose to the top because it was the best, and not because it had a billion dollar machine cramming it down our throats.
Give me an independent artist that writes their own songs, and has a story of their own to tell any day over whats pumping out of the corporate music machine.
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