Do bands not worry about being rich and famous anymore?

JaneNY

radiohead33 wrote:

In Spin, Moby states this “as music becomes less profitable, music becomes a lot better. The old days of starting a band because you want to be rich and famous are falling by the wayside”

What do you all think of his assertion?

Maybe what he means is people solely interested in money/fame are less likely to get into it, so the people that do get into music are those that want to do it at any cost. Getting rich aside though, I think that many people would like to make a *living* doing what they love, which doesn't seem an unreasonable thing to want.

appliedlesson

The first sentence pretty much explains the 80's hair bands.

Jerzdevil

Jeremy1012 wrote:

As for the state of music today, only the mainstream is shit and it always has been. Nothing new there. There has never been a bad time for music for people prepared to seek it out. Only for lazy people.

100% on the mark with that statement.

augustwest

In Spin, Moby states this “as music becomes less profitable, music becomes a lot better. The old days of starting a band because you want to be rich and famous are falling by the wayside"


hmmmm...if less profitable means more accessible, to everyone on the planet for free, then i think i'd have to say that that can only be a good thing for music. i'm not sure it will get better, overall, quality wise, with less profitability associated with it.

as far as bands wanting to do it to be rich&famous i'd say that aspect of rnr will still exist, just like some people will always want to work harder to get further ahead in whatever they do, job wise.

Jack_C_Gregory

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Anyone who makes music purely for the love of it is either rich to start with, or a complete fool.

The Minutemen were definitely not rich and were definitely not fools. That was a band that did make music purely for the love of it. Those guys had their day jobs and then they rocked it at night trying to prove that the everyman could have a band. Music shouldn't just be left up to the elite, rich, Mtv type. It should be accessible for everyone and I believe they proved that.

Pauk

I think it's reaching the target audience that makes music better. In ye days of olde small bands could only reach out to places a driveable distance away and even then have to rely on people to come to gigs. Therefore the only bands to make it big were the ones who appeal to the mainstream. I don't mean that in a condescending 'pop is rubbish' way, but niche bands couldn't reach enough people to ever be vaguely famous. Nowadays with the internet any band can reach 10s of 1000s of people, so more niche music is out there appealing to a very narrow demographic. Therefore, there's a wider variety of music out there, you're more likely to find a band that precisely caters to your taste and thus better music. I guess you could relate that to "less money = better music" but I think the less money is more of an effect than a cause.

And then there's my rant about people who say modern music sucks... people are still hooked on the old fashion idea that if the official charts suck then music must suck, but really, who listens to the charts anymore?! Last time I checked the charts must have been in the late 90s...
Personally, I think anyone who says modern day music is rubbish is a pessimistic lazy fool.