{"id":911,"date":"2007-02-19T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2007\/02\/19\/does-this-guy-even-like-music-where-is-the-love\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T17:32:01","slug":"does-this-guy-even-like-music-where-is-the-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/does-this-guy-even-like-music-where-is-the-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Does This Guy Even Like Music? Where is The Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I am reading this blog by Rags Gupta about The New, New Music Industry<\/a> wondering where is the love? It seems to be written from the perspective of someone so caught up in thinking about business models they don’t think about music. The piece doesn’t mention a single band, or tune. The analysis is quite solid, but it seems to fall into the Studying Music Institutions rather than Music<\/a> trap, just called out by John Battelle. I mean hasn’t anyone else noticed that as the music industry whines louder and louder the quality of music is also trending up to 11. In the UK there are tons of great new bands – at least a couple of which are now delivering their “difficult second albums”. But the Kooks, The Shins, The Kaiser Chiefs, The View, Bloc Party, the Fratellis, Arctic Monkeys, maybe The Automatic (certainly what’s that coming over the hill? is a classic). There is a also a lot of really great music coming out of the United States. But for me the highlights of the year are hopefully\/likely going to be the new albums from Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys. Razorlight suck a fair amount but they’re going be even more huge than they already are (the music is anthemic, the boy wears a mean no shirt). If the music industry is so necessary for more great music in future… the same argument incidentally we hear for software patents, and copyrighted movies and books beyond 70 years, then how come bands are coming out of nowhere at a time when music industry budgets are being slashed? It seems to me there is an inversion here… great bands are possibly mushrooming because, not in spite of, current music industry travails. Nobody says people wouldn’t write more great poetry without a profit motive. Do you think Alexander Solzhenitzyn writes for the money? Why do we accept this argument so readily for other arts? ART IS THE HUMAN CONDITION. Industries then mine that creativity. Remember when artists would turn around at the end of their lives having not made a penny from their recordings? That wasn’t so long ago. Its still happening. You can’t tell me the Barrett brothers didn’t contribute heavily to the Marley sound (52 kids and he still got stiffed<\/a>).
\nI don’t have anything against Rags, I just felt the piece was on point but dry. Why do I love reading Fred Wilson so much? His anti-DRM techniques are unstoppable<\/a>, but more importantly, he really frigging loves the music. His latest tip – Modest Mouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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