The music industry in a nutshell: careers are very short; the face wears off; if you don’t adapt to the proper current sound, you will perish. Or you have to have proper contacts so it must be deserved. You have to step aside for your colleague who will release an album as well. And I am not going to talk about some shady deals otherwise I will get hit by a car.
Money does matter in the music industry. Imagine your favorite album. Your best album. And now it could be 4 times better. Why? Because of songwriters, producers and other staff could have recorded 1000 (sic!) songs more which to pick from. But it has a limited budget and they calculate the rates of return. It same goes with music videos and so on.
But we should never criticize the music or movie industry as people are crazy over money as well. Discounts, competing for jobs, services, and partners; they want to have better income, savings, investments; then power and social prestige.
Well, people are conducting this on a small scope, but the music industry just got it into bigger numbers.
I think music should be financed not only from the aforementioned rates of returns but also surplus value from the music industry itself, the super-rich, multinational corporations and banks as listening to music is a unique great experience a human being can have.
Therefore, the industry would keep making the kind of music you would like, despite the ever-changing sound.
The Beatles, ABBA, Madonna, or their likewise sounds. Everything would keep going. But we must admit there is something as surplus value even though we are not communists or socialists.
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