The New Rules Of The Creative Economy

[David Horn]

(05-20-2022, 02:45 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: But it seems that there have been more such "job actions" since the advent of the Internet, on the part of songwriters and performers. Their income sources are far different now than they were before. This may be good in some ways, yet not so good in others. Whether it will result in fewer music Superstars such as the Beatles were remains to be seen. I am a writer of many song lyrics myself and have managed to get 18 demoed to music which can be found at http://www.soundclick.com/brianbeecher. Would love to get many more done but the cost of production is so prohibitive that they may very well end up just languishing.

The new music business model is, frankly, horrible.  Yes, a few hardy souls have found a path to, if not greatness, limited success.  If I had to pick one example, it would be Ani DiFranco.  She seemed to sense the sea change and rolled with it.  That's both rare and gutsy.  Almost all of the mainstream artists are wholly in the bag with "the industry", or big enough, like Cold Play, to roll on regardless.  Ani DiFranco showed that this level of subservient misbehavior isn't necessary.  Good for her.