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I can’t stand it any longer. Every “groovy” new act to come out the arse of the music industry has supposedly grown from some underground movement on the internet. Manufactured? Who Lily Allen? Of course not. What Sandi Thom? Don’t be stupid. What Arctic Monkeys? How dare you. They’re all very real, raw and talented don’t you know.
So where’s the proof? The internet fan base of course (come on, keep up). Forget that Lily Allen’s Dad is rich and famous. Forget that Sandi Thom had an expensive PR team market her crap for years. Also try to forget that not all her legendary “web casts” actually went ahead and even now her internet ‘fan base’ is pretty hard to find. Forget that one of The Arctic Monkeys is related to the main guy on MTV who decides the play lists. Go one, forget it all you gullible cunts. Go buy their records and believe all their working class crap.
Sandi Thom’s web casts were the only way a poor girl could compete against the music industry? Lily Allen, the down to earth-tell-it-how-it-is girl who doesn’t actually have a wealthy and well connected father? The Arctic Monkeys who are so very working class they sing about being on a buses and drinking on the weekends?
Pfft. I’ve seen less manufactured television sets. ARSES. The lot of them.
July 30th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Was it Super Hans who said the music industry is a load of men in sat behind desks with their ties done up to eleven? “It’s not who you know, it’s who you blow.”
How can a band like Anathema not have a record deal? What the world needs is some good old country rock!
Peace…
July 30th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Ah Super Hans. Wicked.
Anathema lost their record deal? What a joke. Just shows you it’s all about the money. Like everything these days. That’s why we get giant, grey office blokes instead of good looking buildings with flying buttresses (what a wicked name for a band, The Flying Buttresses, but anyway), it’s why the planet dies whilst Shell oil wanks oil into the ocean, it’s why Hollywood remake old films over and over whilst less commercial scripts don’t get touched with a barge pole, and it’s why Lily Allen sings on the radio whilst Anathema aren’t signed.
No-one seems to do anything for the ‘art’ anymore. Years ago, people built amazing churches as a sign of respect to God. They painted amazing portraits as a sign of respect to the King. They wrote and played songs for the joy of music… Ah I dunno what I’m saying really. It’s just that it seems the heart of humanity has been pissed all over by Coco Cola and McDonalds.
You can’t have a football tournament without £10m of advertising, you can’t watch a TV programme without it being sponsored by Dairy Lea Arse Triangles or whatever. Filthy money seems to infect every bit of our lives. Being sold pointless crap we don’t need.
I’m no hypocritical anarchist, or teenage left winger. I love the society in which I live ‘cos I’m free, protected and have an very high standard of life. But really, the big business push for money seems to completely drain every bit of passion anyone has and stick a copyright logo on it.
July 30th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
“Dairy Lea Arse Triangles”
Toilet paper made of soft cheese? It’ll never catch on…
August 14th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
People do still do stuff for the love of it, they just aren’t successful enough for you to have heard of them.
But seriously, people are still making art. Don’t believe all those grey-suited press-monkeys want you to!
November 13th, 2008 at 3:44 am
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