Believe it or not, there was a time when most people didn’t think music sucked, when they paid attention, when music drove the culture.\u00c2\u00a0 Before the labels were owned by fat cats blaming their audience for not buying their overpriced, overproduced, overmassaged cartoon acts.<\/p>\n
Culture has changed.\u00c2\u00a0 Stars are no longer unreachable.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather they’re in bed with their audience, they’re like their audience, only talented.\u00c2\u00a0 When you tart up some female and sell her records on her looks you throw in with Paris and Lindsay, you create an instant joke, whose appeal is anything but her music.<\/p>\n
The music industry perpetuates the image of a female who’s uneducated, stupid and can only get by on her looks.\u00c2\u00a0 In an era when so many women play a musical instrument, couldn’t the acts be respectable, couldn’t they be intelligent, couldn’t they be a little more like THEM?<\/p>\n
I hope you’re following this Apple juggernaut.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it’s what music used to be.<\/p>\n
First there’s great products.\u00c2\u00a0 Which create an insane fan base that will buy almost anything the company puts out, none of which is inexpensive.\u00c2\u00a0 This is how it used to be in the music business.\u00c2\u00a0 God, if that album was great you’d go back and buy the catalog, and then purchase each subsequent disc until you hit two turkeys.<\/p>\n
Second, there’s innovation, which begets excitement.\u00c2\u00a0 The iPhone is like when the Beatles came out with "Sgt. Pepper".\u00c2\u00a0 It was beyond comprehension, it was MORE than we expected.<\/p>\n
Third, devotees follow the company for substantive announcements.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re not watching Steve Jobs and his employees snorting coke on the Web.<\/p>\n
It is utterly fascinating to watch a company firing on all cylinders.\u00c2\u00a0 Forget the iTunes war, with issues of DRM and intercompatibility.\u00c2\u00a0 Most people buy an iPod, there IS no issue!\u00c2\u00a0 The Apple backlash you refer to is only those who haven’t gotten on the bandwagon yet.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s like those who hated the Beatles because they believed the band killed Elvis.\u00c2\u00a0 But Elvis was old and tired, the kids wanted something new.<\/p>\n
I’m fascinated that people in this industry are addicted to music news.\u00c2\u00a0 Where’s the beef?\u00c2\u00a0 Press releases and charting of the comings and goings of idiots and pompous assholes, all written by sycophants without writing skills.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t believe I used to haunt the newsstands looking for ANYTHING about music.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I’m jonesing for tech news, for Apple news.\u00c2\u00a0 Tech is what music used to be.\u00c2\u00a0 A new cell phone is better not only than the crap released by the hacks, but the safe product put out by U2.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you believe it?\u00c2\u00a0 They come out with a new phone every six months that you want, most acts don’t come out with an album you EVER want.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, don’t say it’s about fashion.\u00c2\u00a0 Admit it, you want that new full-sized BlackBerry with the track wheel.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s so thin, call quality is better, and EVERYBODY WHO HAS ONE RAVES ABOUT IT!<\/p>\n
Oh, my music sites are first.\u00c2\u00a0 But part of my morning routine is the MacDailyNews<\/a>, and there I saw a story about the new Apple ads.<\/p>\n Now I never watch commercials, never ever.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m either watching a recording or a pay channel.\u00c2\u00a0 But I watch these ads online, because I want EVERY little Apple hit I can get, I want to experience the CREATIVITY!<\/p>\n And today I found this spot…<\/p>\n Go to: <\/p>\n\n