Free the music from its sellers!

I am a musician.
Not a pro though, but I do "ma' own thing" since 1996 now... (see my links...)

There are a few trends and changes to that, what was called popular music, that make me worry about it since a few years...

1.) I attended a small dance club last night. It is in central Wuerzburg and has room for not more than 100 people. It was packed. I was amazed to see, that they played the soul and funk music of the 60's to 70's. The place was crowded with young students and the DJ was so young, he could have been my son in age, but he was darn good in what he was doing. When listening to the music I could observe two things:

a.) The currently known HipHop beatz have their roots in the soul music of the 60's
I heard music, that seemed to be contemporary music only with a little less qualitiy and a litte difference in style...

b.) The music of that time was more authentic. It was an identification device. It had messages.
Today it is just tits, ass, money and drugs and the reflection on the lifestyle of the main characters in the music industry trying to ged rid of their boredom...
So, I miss the authenticity of the music, that it had, when it came out of its roots.
Today German spoiled young teens can quote every song of 2Pac and 50cent. But what do they know about the depths of the existance rappers like them had when they channeled their distress into rhymes and music...

I miss the pure club atmo in the music...wich I had last night: A band of 5 played funk and soul music from the "old days", inflaming a bunch of young and old folks just shaking their asses off in mindless dancing...thas was simply great!

2.) Money.

We live in a world, that judges everything economically:

"How much will that cost?"

"How much will that bring in?"

Some few thgings I do not understand:

Why are so few people in the music industry earning the majority of the money, that is spend
for music.

Why do, especially rappers, celebrate an exorbitant lifestyle when having had a history, that brought them out of social distressive life situations. Why do multi millionaires keep all of their assets to themselves? I mean if you own 200 million $ or more, why not bringing some of it to the social problem zones? How many other talents would be able to perform or even better: Get education and a good job?

Why do rights management companies (such as GEMA, RIAA etc...) organize their structures this way, that the advantages in asset collecting seem to solemnly go to the few people, that are the 'big guys' in earning money? It is a protective market an mainly to the benefits of the ones that already have enough...

Comercially produced music lacks of a very important thing: The roots.
Many of those test-tube artists never seem to have perfomed in those tiny little clubs. they come out of the marketing concepts of professional music sellers. But is this, what we want to listen to? This is, why the file sharing market was so strong and why concepts like iTunes seem to succeed. It is the possibility of selection. When I buy a CD a mainly have the problem that I have to pay a lot of money for two or three songs, that I like in special. All the rest on a CD normally is just crap.

This is why I rather pay a $ for downloading a song than paying even more for a whole CD, that I partially like. Not paying and filesharing is no alternative for me...

Musicians, who live from making music, need to earn money too.
hterefore I am prepared to pay for consuming their stuff...

But I miss fairness and more acknowledgement for "unknown" artists.

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P.S.: I was lazy lately, I know...Hope to be able to keep up the writing despite less time...