"In the United States and Europe, stars have it easy if they make a hit record," said Han Hong, named best female artist this year at Channel V's China Music Awards, and whose renditions of Tibetan songs have become nationally popular. "In China, we have to give so many concerts that we do not have time to rest our voices."
Am I supposed to feel sorry? Since when is it news that musicians, for the most part, have always been largely poor? It's those "posers" and "fakes" that somehow strike it rich are now bitching. They've been a part of the "corporate pop" machines for so long that they've forgotten what it meant to be creative in the first place. They've been given songs to sing and now get paid to sing a song that someone else wrote just because teens these days need to hear a new song from the same old cookie-cutter pop star.
Let's get real people. Music is good this way, honestly. We want to be able to choose for ourselves who is and who isn't "in". I'm tired of the radios force-feeding me the same old shit. I want something new, fresh, or maybe not-so fresh. Something raw but honest is way better than a "polished" whore/hottie who can sing. It's about time the fans demanded honesty in a musician's musical expression. After all, music isn't about honesty, it's about one's unique interpretation of a song, genre, or otherwise. Music is about allowing those who truly love it to choose what they love. The musician is the one who must also love music enough to effectively stress how much appreciation he or she has for music. Let us all live well together and with music, we can all continue our sanity.
Can I quote you? Naw, honestly I think I refer to the US as being a "she" because I feel that we slap her around like a little bitch. It's time we started taking care of our country and even better--our world, because she's pretty tired too lately.
Now that you mention it, you're probably right. I get that exact notion from reading this report.
'...seeks to ensure even greater protection for some of the most notable songs, speeches and other utterances...'
Oh great. Protection. The U.S. Government defines protestion as "restriction" and "lawsuits" and "censorship". The sooner we as a nation realize that the government is trying to keep us ignorant of our past by withholding these documents, the sooner we'll be able to fight back against our government when she wrongs us. Sometimes I feel like the government is doing just that--Trying in some effort to make us forget how we *used* to run this government. They're making us forget just how much power the people had.
After all, Washington didn't even WANT to be president at first.
Slashdot Mirror
What's even more sad is when the admins look at the spam as a story and actually *POST* it for us to read. It is a sad day indeed for slashdot.
It should have been in the "funny" or "not so funny" department. I hate 419's.
It's not there chief. I got a 404 error. Right, slightly off-topic. It's close to 419, but not quite. Maybe next time.
Oh yeah? Who? What was his name? I want to write a story about it elsewhere...I need details. Thanks.
...of time.
don't you mean "whore" ?
No, not joking. Technically we have support from ~40 countries. Haven't you been listening to the brig. General Debriefings at Centcom on CNN?
Sheez.
"In the United States and Europe, stars have it easy if they make a hit record," said Han Hong, named best female artist this year at Channel V's China Music Awards, and whose renditions of Tibetan songs have become nationally popular. "In China, we have to give so many concerts that we do not have time to rest our voices."
Am I supposed to feel sorry? Since when is it news that musicians, for the most part, have always been largely poor? It's those "posers" and "fakes" that somehow strike it rich are now bitching. They've been a part of the "corporate pop" machines for so long that they've forgotten what it meant to be creative in the first place. They've been given songs to sing and now get paid to sing a song that someone else wrote just because teens these days need to hear a new song from the same old cookie-cutter pop star.
Let's get real people. Music is good this way, honestly. We want to be able to choose for ourselves who is and who isn't "in". I'm tired of the radios force-feeding me the same old shit. I want something new, fresh, or maybe not-so fresh. Something raw but honest is way better than a "polished" whore/hottie who can sing. It's about time the fans demanded honesty in a musician's musical expression. After all, music isn't about honesty, it's about one's unique interpretation of a song, genre, or otherwise. Music is about allowing those who truly love it to choose what they love. The musician is the one who must also love music enough to effectively stress how much appreciation he or she has for music. Let us all live well together and with music, we can all continue our sanity.
That's deep alright. As deep as a well.
...really.
those are great questions
I wish I had answers for you...and me.
You're about as smelly as a sack of shit.
I don't disagree--surprising?
.GOV should think about selling it? They'd be making money and people would get what they want. Everyone happy?
I think its a beautiful idea of converting this media into a digital form. I love it!
I just wish they could share it with us. You have no idea how nice it would be to listen to these recordings. I would *love* it.
Maybe the
Can I quote you? Naw, honestly I think I refer to the US as being a "she" because I feel that we slap her around like a little bitch. It's time we started taking care of our country and even better--our world, because she's pretty tired too lately.
haha! Yeah man. I was trying to be funny. It was inadvertant, but I was trying on different levels. She this...she that.
But anyway... I really did mean what I said.
Now that you mention it, you're probably right.
I get that exact notion from reading this report.
'...seeks to ensure even greater protection for some of the most notable songs, speeches and other utterances...'
Oh great. Protection. The U.S. Government defines protestion as "restriction" and "lawsuits" and "censorship". The sooner we as a nation realize that the government is trying to keep us ignorant of our past by withholding these documents, the sooner we'll be able to fight back against our government when she wrongs us. Sometimes I feel like the government is doing just that--Trying in some effort to make us forget how we *used* to run this government. They're making us forget just how much power the people had.
After all, Washington didn't even WANT to be president at first.
"I have left out the cost of actually printing and copying the albums as I think that the average cost is probably less than $0.25 per copy."
.25 is a pretty hefty chunk of change.
906.6 Million (records) *
At my estimation, that's about $226,500,000 dollars.
Those albums take quite a bit more than that my friend.
*laughs*. There, satisfied? :)
Too bad mercury is toxic.
don't eat it...and don't play with it too much.
...idiot.
And then your damned Harddrive crashes.
What then? I tell you what:
"OH SHIT!! It will take me 8 months to reload all that software. I think I'll just kill myself instead.
Anyone know WHERE a good site for anti-scientology? I think I'll open a site!
You got it buddy!
Lower the damned price. These companies have loads of money. Help the consumers out a little bit, sheez.
I have DSL, and I'd pay whatever they ask for it, but not everyone can do that.
....thats why there are so many bots and not real users.
I missed it!
Yep, they call it a "Ménage á Trois"
It's Techno-babble fiction.