[Dixielandjazz] Big Business Sucking The Life Out Of Art

[Robert S. Ringwald]

I am the one who started this Thread.

Even though I don't think I mentioned it specifically, I was speaking of 
music.

I was curious to see if anyone would come up with the same answer as I did.

A couple listmates kind of did but never really stated it.

IMHO, there is one answer -- MONEY.  As simple as that.

I am thinking even more specifically of the garbage that big business is 
palming off on the American public as music.

They develop a star for just as long as they can eek every little bit of 
money out of he/her and then discard them like an old rag.

Very few of these artists (musicians or singers) have any lasting power. 
Sure, a very few do, but, on the overall scale of things,  not many.

I have mentioned this before:  A few months ago on TV, I watched a show 
where they demonstrated what they could do in a recording studio with modern 
technology.

They took someone with absolutely no talent as a singer, took him into a 
recording studio.  When they got through doing pitch correction, adding 
reverb, music, background singers, etc.  He sounded just like any of the 
other so-called recording stars who are popular today.

You call that art???

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