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Why Amanda Palmer Left the Music 'Industry' For Crowdfunding (digitaltrends.com)
Amanda Palmer says abandoning the commercial music industry for a subscription model made it possible to take more chances, like a new album with psychedelia artist Edward Ka-Spel. An anonymous reader quotes Digital Trends:
I spent my whole life in this music industry trying to figure out how to sell what I'm making. But I don't "sell" anymore -- I just have this magical net of supporters who are supporting me whether I choose to make a record with Edward or make a record with my dad, which I did last year... [S]ometimes, you absolutely want to do ridiculous, noncommercial stuff. The Patreon patrons have been a godsend in that sense. I've had to continually re-educate myself that this isn't about selling music. It's about making music. I got so used to those two being inseparable that it took a lot of psychological work to divorce the processes.
She says her supporters "haven't just promised; they've put down their credit card." And Neil Gaiman, her husband, also strongly endorses the freedom to experiment. "If, as an artist, you ever listen to your fans' demands, and their demands are always insisting you make the last thing they liked again, you would go nowhere."
She says her supporters "haven't just promised; they've put down their credit card." And Neil Gaiman, her husband, also strongly endorses the freedom to experiment. "If, as an artist, you ever listen to your fans' demands, and their demands are always insisting you make the last thing they liked again, you would go nowhere."
Not having financial worries kinda helps with the whole escaping the music industry thing.
Please step forward... not so fast, Mr. Allen...
I had to google her, and am now:
1) glad that I'd never heard of her, and
2) sad that I "discovered" her.
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Funny that they keep going back to Amanda Palmer for these stories, when the real pioneers in crowd-funded music is Marillion, who started doing it way back in 1996 for tours, and 2001 for albums. If you have a big enough fan base, you can probably can do something like this.
I wonder how Hollywood and the music industry have been taken over by lawyers in the first place.
Why is industry in quotes? Whether you like them or not, the collection of music companies are a fucking industry. It makes the stupid article and summary even more full of pretentious shit.
When you think about how many lawyers and Hollywood moguls are jews, it starts making sense.
...bollocks, Amanda Palmer's already famous, got an Indy/punk followingâ, and is financially independent. So how many bands or artists can we name who started out and continued without music corp backing?
This is more like news for nouveau arty farty obscure musicians. Just because the words "crowd funding" is included, doesn't mean it has any technical or science connotation.
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Must have been walnut cake, because he's fucking nuts.
never mind, I don't give a shit
Wait. No. Could it be that being married to a rich famous person means you don't have to worry shit about money, and can do stuff you like anyway?
Look, Neil was successful before he married Amanda. It's not her income that lets him experiment, he makes his own contribution.
The one who wanted people to work for nothing?
http://kotaku.com/5943112/amanda-palmer-asks-musicians-to-play-for-free-pisses-off-musicians
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"If, as an artist, you ever listen to your fans' demands, and their demands are always insisting you make the last thing they liked again, you would go nowhere."
On the one hand it sounds like Gaiman has experience with this because he's gone nowhere, but on the other hand I can't imagine that the Standard Gaiman Protagonist who's constantly stunned at the world around him and given exposition by a strong woman who's stronger than him but wants to sleep with him anyway is something his fans insisted he keep making.
Never heard of her.
Never been a fan, not even back in the old days. Most people I know in independent music think of her as something of a clown, too. Independent music has been around for a great many decades, she rides coat tails (it probably doesn't hurt that she married the most famous author on earth) more than she blazes trails. And for myself: I just honestly don't think she's that *good*. There is a treasure trove of better independent music from the 60s going all the way through the present, of which she is not even a tiny part.
AP working around dead nodes within and without the broken system--your actin like a SJW what you want her to do?
You want to quote me?
"Currently, She's a success period. "
Now it's off to the woodshed with kilobyte for projecting Linux problems on AP.
devuun I would hop with your dangling bodyports over there study moar shool: fravia's art of seek0r and ~/serch?=
AP doesn't publish any fixes at kernel.org
I haven't seen the 5% off code for AP's latest album on kernel.org, you know that place that I SHOP for all my MUSIC at.
MOAR SERCHING
Is music always produced in a factory and delivered to "consumers"? If not, "industry" might not be the ideal term.
Hey, it worked for Status Quo.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Sh was a successful musician before she ever married her husband thanks to the Dresden Dolls. That you automatically assume a woman married to a famous man is successful only because of the man in her life is pretty damn sexist.
I wish I was Amanda Palmer. I am an envious girl who constantly measures herself against everyone fabulous she learns about online, and I've decided Amanda Palmer is who I want to be.
The Dresden Dolls were a big thing way before she married him.
When you think about how many anonymous cowards are idiot assholes, you start to make sense.