OMG Who else hyped as fuck?

Hey that's awesome

What happened to rockstars?

fuck them

Rockstars were a product of genuine talent and charisma, and good songwriting and performance, combined with massive label marketing through radio and record industry monopolies. What changed is the attitudes of the people who run the industry and monopolies. They decided to promote crap instead of putting in the time, money, and effort required to find and develop truly incredible bands into massive global successes.

Why did they decide to promote crap? Probably because it's easier and safer. The way things are done now, having a staff of in-house writers and producers who manufacture music that is then put out under the brand of a pretty looking figurehead, i.e., pop stars, Katy Perry, the latest crop of "plants", etc., makes better business sense in a lot of ways. It's easier to just produce formulaic hits in-house and then find a replaceable pretty face to sell them with than to find a remarkably good band to promote. It's cheaper to manufacture music than to spend years developing 100 decent bands with the hope that one of those bands will be truly great and become a massive success and recoup all the investments the label made in developing that band plus the 99 bands that didn't turn out. It's safer in that the labels have way more control over an artist who is essentially just a hired model, posing with music created and owned by the label, rather than some bullheaded band of actual artists who have, or at least will fight to have the rights to their own work. As long as you have a total monopoly on promotion and distribution that will allow you to sell any product regardless of how shit it may be, which the massive corporations that own labels do have, then it's just much easier and safer to sell manufactured crap than to go through everything required to actually develop good bands.

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The internet offers a way out in that it has the potential to break the corporate monopoly on promotion and distribution - any band can make social media accounts, pay small fees to advertise, distribute their music to streaming platforms, etc. This has resulted in more serious music fans moving away from the monopolized corporate music trough, and it's part of the reason for the massive proliferation of micro genres and tiny internet based music trends/scenes, but this attitude of independently seeking out music you actually like hasn't spread far enough into the normie-verse to really have an effect on the massive corporate model so the result is what we have now: all the massive stars are garbage because garbage is all the labels have any incentive to promote, but there is tons of good stuff in independent world, but that stuff barely makes any money. We'll see where it goes.

this is sounds so freaking epic. take all my money!

>tenacious D

they supported them in 2011

>weezer

supported in 2018

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You think change will come individually?

It's happening slowly. But it's hard to say how far it will go. Some people just have zero interest in looking outside the radio/tv/ big spotify playlist, or whatever other corporate-curated stream they get their music from.

>It's happening slowly
isnt happening anything. people are, if anything, even more controlled today. theyre secretely controlled by algorythms, even the "patricians", if you use the internet for anything, youre fucked.

The real positive change would be if smaller bands/artists could find a business model that would make it more viable. A lot of small bands have enough of a fanbase that if they could get a couple dollars from a large portion of their fanbase on a semi-regular basis they could make it. But they have to find some way of making that happen. Right now a lot of bands operate off t-shirts sales, and it's cool that that can work, but it's obviously not ideal, and it's shitty that they have to depend on something that essentially has nothing to do with the actual music.

>People had more freedom and were more free back when what ideas were allowed to be shared was controlled (with literally 0 alternatives) by whoever had the means to print them and now that everything is accessible and there's more new media made every year than there was in all previous combined people are more "controlled"
Speak for yourself, RAWK fans push this more than anyone else and they're usually the least critically minded.
>The real positive change would be if smaller bands/artists could find a business model that would make it more viable.
Are you not aware that pic related exists? A label started and run by a band of aussies who publish plenty of other bands of Aussies, they sold reissues of older material and they were sold out constantly, plenty of dorky fucks still pay for music, the business model isn't the issue, the way bands market (or don't market) themselves is what's fucking them.

>Pic related
I'm on crack don't @ me

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imagine the smell

What format were they selling? Digital, CD, vinyl?

>CD, vinyl