An Artist's View of the Modern Music Biz

An anonymous reader writes "A member of the band OK Go wrote an interesting open letter giving an artist's perspective on the current state of the music business and how labels finance producing, distributing, and marketing music and music videos. A very insightful perspective of 'both sides': the argument that music and music videos are meant to be heard and, in the case of the latter, seen by a wide audience; and the argument that the money needs to come from somewhere. Unfortunately, the letter doesn't address the perspective outsiders have of outlandish salaries in the music labels, but it is interesting nonetheless." Their new video is not bad either.

Comments

Re:Promotion

[flyneye]

Yes, but, we actually do want to kill the music industry for its many crimes against musicians ,music and listeners.
An open business model is a much more profitable scenario for musicians operating on a level playing field, i.e. no industry spotlighting owned talent obscuring independent acts which may be actually better listens.
            Quit thinking about how to help the cancer and start thinking about how to remove the cancer.

Re:"the money needs to come from somwhere"

[iB1]

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