Web 2.0 Comment

       Had I not chose to write my blog about hunting, a close second would have been the topic of music.  I am a guitar player/amateur recording artist by hobby.  Andrew Keen talks about his friends idea to force out the "big media" because they are the enemy that exploits the music industry.  I couldn't agree with his friend more!  Web 2.0 would allow any "Joe Shmoe" to publish their own work and slowly remove big record labels from the industry.  The author of this blog states in paragraphs 12,13,14 that a consequence of this would be narcissism, meaning the music will be too personalized and only reflect ourselves rather than the worlds around us therefore eliminating the chances for people comparable to Mozart, Van Gogh, and Hitchcock to be recognized.  I don't find any truth to this at all.  I feel that you will need to filter through alot more crap to find real talent but it will not enable talent to be found.  Over 90% of the music industry is a joke.  Like what you want from the top ten lists you hear on the radio whether its country, pop, or rock but the artists and their songs are pre-fabricated garbage.  Well over half of the music industries leading artists to not deserve to be called artists.  I encourage you all to look at the pages within the album.  My girlfriend is a big fan of Carrie Underwood.  Miss Underwood hasn't written more then 2 or 3 songs on any one of her albums.  She is just another pretty face with a great voice who was easy to exploit and make millions off of.  In that case, my cousin and at least 12 other women in the La Crosse area are just as, if not more talented then her.  I see and hear great band and artists all over the state.  I fill my cd case with their music twice as fast as I would with mainstream artists. If only their cd's were of better quality.  I think if more people supported live music and brought the appeal of music to a more local level, we would all have better music that meant more to us and for a fraction of the money.  You could pay 10 dollars to see a band near by versus paying those thieves at Ticketmaster 75 dollars then having to drive to a big city.  There isn't a single song I wish to hear off of 95.7 the Rocks radio station.  Every song is personalized to young men and women who can relate love, hate, sex, breaking up, my daddy hit me, so on and so fourth.  The worse kind of song to me is one that I can predict what is gonna happen next.  Whether its melodic or listening to the story and knowing what they are gonna sing about next.  This writer went on to talk about how Elite Hollywood studios have a knack for finding elite talent.  This world has more undiscovered talent then Hollywood or Nashville will ever care to know.  The music industry isn't about music at all.  Its about what will sell the most.  Music without sex appeal and an interesting background story behind the front man or woman of the band will not sell records.  I say let Hollywood continue their exploitation according to Marxism.  It will take a long time for Web 2.0 to catch on and when it does the "bourgeoisie" will find a way to get their dirty hands on that too.  I don't have the time to filter out all the crappy bands just to find the winners so I think for this movement to happen, a worldwide democracy in a grading system will need to rank what is published.