Reasons Why Music Sucks

so as i was sitting on my couch last night watching American Idol (i know i loose cool points for that but so screw me nothing else on tuesday or wednesday before Lost) i realized something. the music business sucks. a lot of me has always wanted to be in a band and yada yada yada you can fill in the rest of the blanks. but right now i think music is the last place to be in any entertainment. here are a couple of my reasons why i think music sucks right now and, and why i think there are amazing things happening and why.

Bad Things
American Idol
watching AI you can see why the era of mass collaboration on the internet and music business is pulling it down and apart. i have had to sit through Sanjaya ruin two of my favorite songs and because of a bunch of crying Tweeners and Soccer moms i have to see legitmate contestants leave. but this isn't new for Idol and it won't be in the coming years because i think that ultimately AI is ruining music and the music business. if you look back on past Idolers there have only been 3 successful albums. Two winners (Underwood, and Clarkson) and one 4th place finisher in Daughtry. Fox loves to handjob itself and say what a success the show has been in the biz and i can't discount that. but i believe that putting people who don't know anything about music (technically, historically, socially) is bad for a medium that has the chance to affect so many people. in the end all we have gotten is hundreds of Fox drones putting out senseless crap or making me sit through bad karaoke versions of songs i love that i heard better when i am hearing them at a local dive bar when a drunk regular drinks to many brandy old fashions and thinks they can sing "Black Velvet" idol won't go away and it won't get better because no one this year has the chance to out sell Carrie or Kelly.

Corporate Companies Having Record Labels
Starbucks has started a record label and the first signee is Sir Paul McCartney. this isn't good for music consumers. we already have thousands of indie labels which put out great music. and a handful of big labels that put out really shitty music. pretty soon they will just have to do a nationwide talent search of all the baristas that work at Starbucks so that they can drone us out with their senseless shit everytime i walk in the place.

DRM
you don't know what this means well look it up and realize how pissed people are.

Good Things
Indie acts hitting the charts
this year alone the Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, and The Shins have hit #2 on the charts which is a promising trend that i hope continues. yeah it's hip to be in an indie or emo band right now but at least this music is challenging and progressing the collective conscious.

Public Radio
small and large left of the dial radio stations are amazing. listening to NPR was part of my childhood and now i am old enough to enjoy it. also small indie/college radio stations streaming over the internet is why music and radio is still good.

BitTorrent
having the ability to download music is a great tool that a lot of bands are using and should keep on using. there is so much amazing ways you can use these things to get your music to people and looking at other ways to make money i.e. licensing or just touring forever can make it worthwhile.

ok so that was my quick little analysis. take it or leave it. i'm tired and my coffee isn't working so i fucking crabby. bye.

don't sit on a cactus.