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Elton John Says Internet is Destroying Music

Posted by samzenpus on from the mtv-already-did-it dept.

Jared writes "Elton John says that the internet is destroying good music and "stopping people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff." He laments the way that the internet and the emerging industry of digital music has created a cold and impersonal world for artists to create new music in."

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  1. Exposure by Tykho · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's so many bands I wouldn't have started listening to if I hadn't heard samples or web broadcasts of them on the net. It's certainly broadened my musical taste having digital distribution of music so easily available.

  2. Ticket prices by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Right Sir Elton, i'd love to be able to afford to see my bands live, but most of them are assholes like you and charge $150 a ticket, hence it's not possible to see more then a couple a year at best.

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  3. Re:Sucks to be you, Elton by polar+red · · Score: 5, Interesting

    today's Britney crowd
    In my opinion, the new music world should be about choice The internet creates choice. And if that internet destroys the musicindustry(I'm talking about formatted music like britney's) GOOD: bring on all the new types of music!

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  4. Re:Sucks to be you, Elton by asuffield · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think the biggest problem in music, at least in the US, is the end of independent ownership and management of radio stations.


    I'd say it's more than just that. The biggest problem in music is the end of independent ownership and management of everything related to music on any kind of large scale. You name it, it's either owned or controlled by the RIAA mob, or it's basically irrelevant to the majority of the industry. Plenty of small-scale stuff happens, all the way down to people just talking to each other about it, but none of it reaches the necessary critical mass for any of the ideas generated to travel far beyond the (social) vicinity of the place where they started.

    The root cause of all this is obvious: whenever anything significant starts to happen, people start thinking about how they can make money from it, and then they start thinking about how to maximise their profits from it, and then the RIAA mob makes them an offer.
  5. Finding band members by Bayoudegradeable · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Funny, Elton... Backpage and Craigslist helped a buddy and me find a bass player, a drummer and a singer. We now have a band with our tunes on MySpace which gives us more exposure than we could ever have without the net. So, find new members, share your music, find the best deals on musical gear, tout your gigs, reach the world, download software to help recording... How is that killing music Sir Platform Heels and Funny Glasses?

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    1. Re:Finding band members by yourlord · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The point he's making is that the internet isn't killing music. It's fostering it's creation and it's dissemination to the world.

      It may wind up killing the species of "musician" who get unbelievably filthy rich off a couple of hits and then can sit around the rest of their life commenting on how technology is destroying the vehicle they rode to their destination. But that's a small price to pay for the swell of music now available at humanity's fingertips.

      The internet is not killing music.

      It's only killing corporate dominance of music.