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My MAIN beef with these discussions?
Buzzwords, Buzzwords, Buzzwords and sideline commentary.
There's WAAAAAAY too much jargon thrown around, and in some cases it's plain as day that some of the people posting have NO idea what they're talking about.
Fans have started throwing around industry terms with reckless abandon, and in MOST cases they're concerning themselves with details that we as fans don't need to be bothered with:
"old business model", "Marketing", "Updated Paradigm" - Why the FUCK should I care how Sony is planning to present me with music? All I should know is that the new "Artist A" album drops on the 23rd
"Numbers"- Again. So WHAT if "Artist A" sells a million copies? How does that make his music good or how does that make him comparable to Artist B?
"Units", "Branding", "Imaging", "Product" etc. - It reeks of some kid fresh outta Advertising 281 just trying to make himself look smarter in a music discussion. There's NOTHING more annoying than hearing somebody say that Artist A has new 'product' out.
Also, some of us here HAVE actually taken the steps of starting up labels, and putting out commercial releases. This doesn't make us smarter or any more talented than anybody else. But it's kinda stubborn for people to shout us down as if we have NO idea how this shit works. Even if we're wrong ( and apparently we are, because we're not driving Ferraris *looks at camera*), we're coming from a place of experience. And as one of my old football coaches used to say: "You can't teach experience". All that shit about updated business models, and alternative revenue streams goes out the window if you haven't invested YOUR time and money into it, and then dealt with the shit that goes along with releasing music. It's Armchair A&R'ing, plain and simple.
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