Comments on: John Mellencamp on The State of the Music Business http://www.xplosiveworld.com/2009/03/23/john-mellencamp-on-the-state-of-the-music-business/ Music, Gear, Politics, Swagger Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:27:33 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matt Marinchick http://www.xplosiveworld.com/2009/03/23/john-mellencamp-on-the-state-of-the-music-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1918 Matt Marinchick Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:10:01 +0000 http://www.xplosiveworld.com/?p=989#comment-1918 Yo that's true too. Thanks for following up. The only thing I would say about that would be the shelf life is the consumers fault... Americans are always searching for the next best thing. We go through music like piranhas to an unsuspecting cow stepping into the Amazon River....haha. Always searching for the NEXT big thing. Yo that's true too. Thanks for following up. The only thing I would say about that would be the shelf life is the consumers fault… Americans are always searching for the next best thing. We go through music like piranhas to an unsuspecting cow stepping into the Amazon River….haha. Always searching for the NEXT big thing.

]]> By: xplosive http://www.xplosiveworld.com/2009/03/23/john-mellencamp-on-the-state-of-the-music-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1906 xplosive Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:32:55 +0000 http://www.xplosiveworld.com/?p=989#comment-1906 I think you make great points Matt, but may be over-thinking the point he's making. He's not really encouraging the industry to go back to the vinyl, but pointing out the fact that the record labels did a lousy job of keeping up with technology and hedged their bets on the notion that the CD would be around for 50 years. Right now the industry is really fucked up because of these labels and their poor management. It's fine to say an artist can mature on their own before needing a label and can still be successful in doing so, but I find it impossible for an artist to make a decent living as a musician without some sort of corporate backing. These days artists are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to dealing with labels because they have the choice of taking the shitty deal being offered by a label or waiting for the landscape to improve while trying to grow independently in the meantime. That shitty deal may end up being the only opportunity an artist ever gets to achieve a higher level of success in the industry, as the shelf life of artists these days is short and like many other fields of entertainment, once a performer hits about 30 years old- their stock starts to slide. I really like what Mellencamp had to say and believe that more artists need to step up and put the labels in check. I think you make great points Matt, but may be over-thinking the point he's making. He's not really encouraging the industry to go back to the vinyl, but pointing out the fact that the record labels did a lousy job of keeping up with technology and hedged their bets on the notion that the CD would be around for 50 years.

Right now the industry is really fucked up because of these labels and their poor management. It's fine to say an artist can mature on their own before needing a label and can still be successful in doing so, but I find it impossible for an artist to make a decent living as a musician without some sort of corporate backing. These days artists are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to dealing with labels because they have the choice of taking the shitty deal being offered by a label or waiting for the landscape to improve while trying to grow independently in the meantime.

That shitty deal may end up being the only opportunity an artist ever gets to achieve a higher level of success in the industry, as the shelf life of artists these days is short and like many other fields of entertainment, once a performer hits about 30 years old- their stock starts to slide.

I really like what Mellencamp had to say and believe that more artists need to step up and put the labels in check.

]]> By: Matt Marinchick http://www.xplosiveworld.com/2009/03/23/john-mellencamp-on-the-state-of-the-music-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1899 Matt Marinchick Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:31:44 +0000 http://www.xplosiveworld.com/?p=989#comment-1899 On the creation of CD's: They actually do sound better and can stand a little bit more wear and tear than a record album. I think advances in technology should not be looked at as a "con" or "get rich quick" scheme. There are many advantages to Compact Discs that albums do not afford. On success in the modern industry: To say that "there is no time for music to develop in a natural way that we can all embrace when it ripens and matures" is entirely based on individual wants and needs from the artist. An artist would understand what it means to grow and learn AS an artist. The outcome of artists trying to get rich quick is just like any mans goal of being successful. If given the opportunity to become CEO of a company, not many people would pass the chance up and say, '' I would like to pass on the opportunity and start in the basement moving boxes and slowly build my way back up to CEO..... On the creation of CD's: They actually do sound better and can stand a little bit more wear and tear than a record album. I think advances in technology should not be looked at as a "con" or "get rich quick" scheme. There are many advantages to Compact Discs that albums do not afford.

On success in the modern industry: To say that "there is no time for music to develop in a natural way that we can all embrace when it ripens and matures" is entirely based on individual wants and needs from the artist. An artist would understand what it means to grow and learn AS an artist. The outcome of artists trying to get rich quick is just like any mans goal of being successful. If given the opportunity to become CEO of a company, not many people would pass the chance up and say, '' I would like to pass on the opportunity and start in the basement moving boxes and slowly build my way back up to CEO…..

]]> By: BFochs http://www.xplosiveworld.com/2009/03/23/john-mellencamp-on-the-state-of-the-music-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1896 BFochs Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:37:26 +0000 http://www.xplosiveworld.com/?p=989#comment-1896 Whoa, J.M. kept it all the way real, very good read. Whoa, J.M. kept it all the way real, very good read.

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