purplefood wrote:The industry has been corporation oriented since the 1920's...
Music is an industry. It exists to make money.
I imagine people said the same thing about the electric guitar as they did about autotuning when it first came about.
My point is the elder generation didn't like the popular music of the younger generation. This is happening now and it happened then. Back then the elder generation thought the younger generation were probably d-bags and they did have a go at them for it. Guess what happened then?
The younger generation grew up and had kids. Then they thought the generation below them were d-bags and it keeps going forever and ever.
I know the industry's focused on making money, of course it is, but you just don't get things like free concerts any more- not
every little thing was about making money.
If you listen to Bob Dylan's concert in Manchester (
IIRC), he used an electric guitar and you can hear the fans booing at him. My point was not that older generations didn't complain, but that I think the current complaints about modern music are more reasonable- an electric guitar still requires skill to play whether you like the sound of it or not- autotune does not.
and I'm on your side with the whole "circle of life" whereby older generations will always regard younger generations as d-bags, and it will likely go on forever.