Category: Blog
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How to Fix the Music Industry v2
Yes, I like to complain. But only about things I’m passionate about. I went onto NME.com and read that Muse covered the Hendrix version of “The Star Spangled Banner” and Nirvana’s “School” and couldn’t help but wish I could see or hear them. If the music industry was smart they’d have someone recording these cool…
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Please, let the Grammy Awards die
Lets be honest, there are two reasons the Grammy Awards exist: Advertising revenue for CBS and so stars can pat themselves on the back. Well, one of those things will never go away, however as viewers stop watching the Grammys the advertising will go away. The Grammy Awards will go the way of the CD…
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New Jackson Music: Does anyone care?
The last time Michael Jackson wrote a song worth listening to was a few tracks from “Dangerous.” So it’s been nearly 20 years since a good Jackson song has been released, and yet people whip themselves into a frenzy after hearing that a new song was leaked. Apparently it was written with the underwhelming, but…
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How to Fix the Music Industry
The music industry is doomed. Like the newspaper industry, car companies, housing, etc. Except none are really doomed, they just need a reboot. The old ways of doing things is doomed. So what about music? I still buy albums on iTunes but I also buy single songs. The problem with the music industry is that…
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Should an artist be able to reclaim a song?
I was listening to Christmas music on a local radio station and Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time.” It’s a dreadful song. Not because of the lyrics or Paul’s voice–its the music. It’s dreadfully dated like a green shag rug. So here is the question: When an artist records a song that is good, but dreadfully…
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Is Lady Gaga the most over-rated artist today?
Sure, Gaga is able to make people talk about her. Madonna and Michael Jackson had the same ability–both of which influenced Gaga. But at least Madonna cranked out hit-after-hit. Gaga is just getting by. Why doesn’t Leona Lewis get the ink that Gaga gets? It’s because Gaga is interesting. Think KISS. KISS was a passable…
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Why Snoop Dogg lost his flow?
Snoop was on the Howard Stern show and he said that he used to keep a diary of rhymes. But he no longer does that. Instead he just flows on songs. It’s no wonder he isn’t as good as he used to be. I don’t care how great you are at ad libbing, it’ll never…
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Should a band own a name forever?
After answering a reader’s question about song lyrics it occurred to me that bands, especially the ones that suck, get to keep their names forever. And yet a crappy movie can easily be forgot and the title can get reused again and again. Case in point. “Twilight” was a movie in 1998 with Paul Newman…