To be honest it probably died out when Cobain died. It's long gone now. All these pop rock bubble gum boys. I actually have a friend in the record industry. He said that they don't want bands to be big and famous. They just want one hit wonders. So then they have control.
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Originally posted by Josh knight View PostTo be honest it probably died out when Cobain died. It's long gone now. All these pop rock bubble gum boys. I actually have a friend in the record industry. He said that they don't want bands to be big and famous. They just want one hit wonders. So then they have control.
It's a lot to do with proper bands needing to be built on credibility, which means time to develop on their own and let it grow organically to a certain degree. Also, the album is less important than it used to be seeing as everyone can pick and choose what songs they want from iTunes or streaming services. So now the emphasis is on having a hit that gets streamed a lot on Youtube, Apple Music, Spotify etc..
Essentially it's much cheaper to get in a pop singer/dancer, provide them with a song written by a writer to have basically employed, make the right video and just push it online.
What will usually happen is they get songs provided by songwriters, the record company will take a cut of the publishing and royalties and they will also make sure the artist gets a writing credit on the song, even if they didn't do anything which is usually the case, but they have the songwriters over a barrel because they know there's still a lot of money in it for them if the song gets to the right singer, even if it means giving up a big % of the royalties. It's much harder to do this with bands, because they're usually writing their own material.
So yeah, it's about control and keeping as much money in-house as possible. It's also just about the ease of being able to offer a product to turn a quick profit in the current climate where there simply isn't as much money in the industry due to the internet and streaming and whatnot. It's much easier to turn over a quick profit with a two-bit singer/dancer puppet than it is to let a band develop, less risk too.
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Originally posted by baya View Postas long as we have QOTSA, arctic monkeys, the black keys, wolfmother then i'm good.
that new QOTSA album is going to be awesome, it's like a follow-up to Them Crooked Vultures.
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