[djeddy]

who the fuck is he to bitch that the internet is destroying the industry?

first off, sir elton hasn't had a hit since his diana's dead song in 1997. he still makes his royalty EVERY time a commercial or movie uses one of his songs. so he can retire and live like the royal queen he is.

second. why blame a new form of technology, when the ones he should blame are the clueless suits that keep conglomorating the major labels.

back in the 90's the industry was capitalizing on music sales by releasing lots of bad albums that had 1 or 2 good songs. i remember working at blockbuster music (95-99) that lots of customers snickered at the fact that they had to shell out an avg. of 16.99 for a full-length CD when all they really want is one song.

if label honchos werent busy snorting all that cocaine in 1999. they would have paid attention to this new thing called the internet. even more so, to that 19 year old college kid who created a little neat ftp program 'napster'

instead they were caught with their pants down and cucumbers up their asses. so they push desperate for 'anybody' who can make a song. and then fake-promote it to make such anybody popular..even if its just for one song, and try to make most of it sales from CD's..their only form of 'bloated' profit left since they still control those prices.

And as time goes on, such anybody has his/her own group or entourage who in turn get their shot at making a track. and so forth and so forth.

it becomes a downward spiral. which seems endless.

so some smart guy in england thinks of making a tv show in which he finds talent and lets the nation be the A&R. THAT has now become the phenomenon of this decade. and it further proves how distant corporate labels are to the people.

the internet wouldn't 'kill' the industry if the industry didnt listen to the people first right?