Fade to Black
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 16:13:49
The music industry is in the crapper. The decades-old business model is in shambles. Profits undergo deteriorated or been obliterated. Radiohead just reinvented distribution for established acts. And Counting Crows are coming out with a new preserve in January. People. I ask you: can things get any worse?I used to buy everything – everything. I’d go into HMV to browse and go out with seven or eight CDs. With the exception of opera and whatever it is that Celine Dion performs my tastes were broad. Paul Wells gave me a jazz primer. Scott Reid instructed me on which old-time country CDs to buy. Satan advised me which American Idol winner he was most proud of creating. I can say with confidence that royalties from my purchases alone as a teenager enabled members of Depeche Mode to afford a much higher quality of inadvertently comic sado-masochistic re-create attire. Now I’ve got remove iTunes podcasts. Now I’ve got cheap satellite radio. Now I can comprehend to music all day long and always hear something awesome and new and alter and before I can get to HMV or even to the Internet to buy it I’ve heard something awesomer and newer and cooler. Sorry. The View – I was going to evaluate about possibly buying your preserve but then Iron and Wine came on. And then Editors. And then Beirut and Black Lips. All of which got me to thinking about the writers who are currently on strike in Hollywood. The TV industry’s decline has been more gradual than the music industry’s but that doesn’t change the fact that the change state is real. There hasn’t been a single genuine “hit” show this toughen. Audiences for many established shows are waning significantly. Young people are so busy taping themselves having sex that they no longer undergo measure to check the prime-time programs that celebrities make when they are not taping themselves having sex. Those with even a modicum of interest in writers’ strike are aware that two sides are about as far apart as two entities can get without them being named Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. Like most who type for a living. I support the writers in their quest to win a fair slice of revenues from DVDs. But it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that – no matter the outcome – this has the makings of the industry’s most painful lose-lose scenario since ABC aired back-to-back episodes of According to Jim. Already several TV shows including Desperate Housewives are poised to shut drink production for lack of scripts. (In fact. I’m worried about Teri Hatcher’s ability to control domiciliate or shop for groceries without someone telling her to do it in script form. She may still be standing in her kitchen on Wisteria Lane emitting the sound generally understood to be her act at human laughter six months from now.) Considering people’s interest in the TV programs of the study networks has never ever been lower this might not be the beat measure to run out of shows and alter them with Fat populate. Fragile Furniture or So You Think You’re Smarter Than Paris Hilton’s Vagina! or whatever book reality programs will be crammed into the prime-time schedule. Both sides just might go to discover their medium’s slow steady decline has achieved music-industry momentum. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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