THE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY or HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND HATE YOUR CRAPPY MUSIC
Today if you briefly cast your ears upon a commercial radio station you can hear such reputable acts as The Veronicas, Thirsty Merc and The Rogue Traders. Hearing these things weak minded people could be convinced that the Australian music industry is doing quite well. However anyone with half a brain and a pre-school education can see these bands and the many like them are in fact bad for the Australian music industry.
I am passionate about the Australian music industry because I am sick of seeing the cultural assimilation of the world. Australia and Australian bands have something special and unique to bring to the international scene but they seldom get past being known by their friends and family because of the ‘play for profit pop propaganda’ mentality of the commercial stations.
I draw your attention to that Simpson’s episode where Homer, Apu, Barney and Principal Skinner make up a barber shop quartet named the B Sharps? I particularly like that one myself, especially the scene where the B sharps win a Grammy award and Homer who is Narrating the story says “we had fame and fortune and now all we needed was the approval of record company low-lives.” These ‘play for profit pop propaganda’ bands are being created by people within the music industry and not the actual people in musical act, who are a bunch of puppets with the Australian music industry pulling their strings.
It’s annoying to have Australian Idol on television but what’s more annoying is the fact that not only the Australian Idol winner is getting a contract with a major record label, which is fair enough, but at least six others are getting contracts to major record labels, which is a grave injustice to talented musical acts such as ‘You Am I’ who struggle to get a contract with a record label. To have such rare talent should be preciously handled, instead of Australian Idol rejects who have a whole career of one song that they cover anyway, so it’s not even their own material. It’s just a ridiculous situation which shouldn’t have been created in the first place.
That’s why I’m passionate about it. The Australian music industry is going down to the sewerage and if it keeps up in time then it will have that particular musk to it.
I’m Stefan Anderson and that’s my two cents.
Today if you briefly cast your ears upon a commercial radio station you can hear such reputable acts as The Veronicas, Thirsty Merc and The Rogue Traders. Hearing these things weak minded people could be convinced that the Australian music industry is doing quite well. However anyone with half a brain and a pre-school education can see these bands and the many like them are in fact bad for the Australian music industry.
I am passionate about the Australian music industry because I am sick of seeing the cultural assimilation of the world. Australia and Australian bands have something special and unique to bring to the international scene but they seldom get past being known by their friends and family because of the ‘play for profit pop propaganda’ mentality of the commercial stations.
I draw your attention to that Simpson’s episode where Homer, Apu, Barney and Principal Skinner make up a barber shop quartet named the B Sharps? I particularly like that one myself, especially the scene where the B sharps win a Grammy award and Homer who is Narrating the story says “we had fame and fortune and now all we needed was the approval of record company low-lives.” These ‘play for profit pop propaganda’ bands are being created by people within the music industry and not the actual people in musical act, who are a bunch of puppets with the Australian music industry pulling their strings.
It’s annoying to have Australian Idol on television but what’s more annoying is the fact that not only the Australian Idol winner is getting a contract with a major record label, which is fair enough, but at least six others are getting contracts to major record labels, which is a grave injustice to talented musical acts such as ‘You Am I’ who struggle to get a contract with a record label. To have such rare talent should be preciously handled, instead of Australian Idol rejects who have a whole career of one song that they cover anyway, so it’s not even their own material. It’s just a ridiculous situation which shouldn’t have been created in the first place.
That’s why I’m passionate about it. The Australian music industry is going down to the sewerage and if it keeps up in time then it will have that particular musk to it.
I’m Stefan Anderson and that’s my two cents.
posted by Stefan at 4:06 AM
2 Comments:
the other bad thing about australian idol was that the winner wasn't even an Australian he was some Irish bloke
The Australian music industry as been run by a number of fatcats who are out to make a quick buck on the poor artist.
The people who audition and make it on to Australian Idol are not at fault, most of them actually have talent. Their talent is wasted though by these pretend know it alls who think that the dollar is the only way for the industry to go.
I wouldn't be suprised if the industry which is wearing rags right now will be dead in a few more years from this mentally. I hope for the sake of strong minded Australians that these fatcats are sacked and a new fresh of real Australians come in and fix this mess up (wishful thinking).
Well done Stefan for not holding back.
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