"There's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do but how it's done..."
and the music industry is not the best place to go if you're looking for that. Why? Well...it's an industry...
I grew up listening to the radio like anyone else, it was the source for all the new music. One of my favorite shows was DJ B who would actually scratch and mix new records instead of just shouting. He made it exciting and I still have tapes of his show and would still enjoy them today.
After graduating high school, around the time of Napster, I guess the music industry was slowly becoming asphyxiated because it seemed to give light on alot of shallow, incredibly basic music. I still remember my last day of radio...when they were breaking a new record on 92Q:
Chicken Noodle Soup - Webstar Feat. Yung B
I thought it was I was being Punk'd.
So I made a conscious decision to stop listening to the radio. But even now when I try to check on what's in the top 10, or what's hot, it always seems to sound familiar...either like the same hit from last summer, or something that I made and deleted because I was ashamed of it.
But I really wonder, do music fans ever feel like they're being ripped off when you hear the same song over and over? Let's check this out real quick...
This is 2005-2008:
and the music industry is not the best place to go if you're looking for that. Why? Well...it's an industry...
I grew up listening to the radio like anyone else, it was the source for all the new music. One of my favorite shows was DJ B who would actually scratch and mix new records instead of just shouting. He made it exciting and I still have tapes of his show and would still enjoy them today.
After graduating high school, around the time of Napster, I guess the music industry was slowly becoming asphyxiated because it seemed to give light on alot of shallow, incredibly basic music. I still remember my last day of radio...when they were breaking a new record on 92Q:
Chicken Noodle Soup - Webstar Feat. Yung B
I thought it was I was being Punk'd.
So I made a conscious decision to stop listening to the radio. But even now when I try to check on what's in the top 10, or what's hot, it always seems to sound familiar...either like the same hit from last summer, or something that I made and deleted because I was ashamed of it.
But I really wonder, do music fans ever feel like they're being ripped off when you hear the same song over and over? Let's check this out real quick...
This is 2005-2008:
Yeah...that's the music industry...
so if you think that was too analytical...well... I actually do that alot, and i have tons of other examples. But at the same time it motivates me to not make the same mistakes...
and it's not so much that they are mistakes, because all of those records did great, but the thing is, those records were NOT risky at all....because those music heads KNEW that song sold last summer, and it can sell again as long as people don't care about originality...
I'd rather take those risks with my music, and if people don't like it, it's cool, i still do it because I love it.
"Alien Blues" (Instrumental)
so if you think that was too analytical...well... I actually do that alot, and i have tons of other examples. But at the same time it motivates me to not make the same mistakes...
and it's not so much that they are mistakes, because all of those records did great, but the thing is, those records were NOT risky at all....because those music heads KNEW that song sold last summer, and it can sell again as long as people don't care about originality...
I'd rather take those risks with my music, and if people don't like it, it's cool, i still do it because I love it.
"Alien Blues" (Instrumental)
Gentle Giant + Jeph "I Lost My Head"
http://www.zshare.net/audio/617348452e850174/
bring it back, bring it bring it back, if you
seen my head rollin by you--bring it back to the/
rightful owner to everyone's bright idea
it always sounds familiar everytime i hear ya track/
that's the truth, you can't tell me that aint true
whatever they call new, i'm feelin the deja vu, on some.../
"i can't quite place this but i,
think i made this a couple years ago and then erased it"/
no offense--all you rappers no offense
for spittin them sick rhymes
i can trace the origins of.../
where you got the style
(the influenza)
don't make me map it out now you remember/
lemme stop, lemme lemme stop
hip hop: you my peoples
i don't mean no friendly fi-re/
but can we raise the bar a little higher?
higher? (higher?) higher?
hold it-- right there./
http://www.zshare.net/audio/617348452e850174/
bring it back, bring it bring it back, if you
seen my head rollin by you--bring it back to the/
rightful owner to everyone's bright idea
it always sounds familiar everytime i hear ya track/
that's the truth, you can't tell me that aint true
whatever they call new, i'm feelin the deja vu, on some.../
"i can't quite place this but i,
think i made this a couple years ago and then erased it"/
no offense--all you rappers no offense
for spittin them sick rhymes
i can trace the origins of.../
where you got the style
(the influenza)
don't make me map it out now you remember/
lemme stop, lemme lemme stop
hip hop: you my peoples
i don't mean no friendly fi-re/
but can we raise the bar a little higher?
higher? (higher?) higher?
hold it-- right there./
