The music industry is going the way of the dinosaur. Book publishing is sure to be almost directly behind it, and I can't imagine DVD (sorry, Blu-Ray) sales are going to remain afloat forever.
The culprit behind all this?
It's the posers, of course.
See, posers believe that people will pay for anything. Well, actually they believe that they're the next big thing, but they're stupid and wrong. But more importantly, they believe that people will pay for what they're making.
News flash: only fools pay for anything.
There is no way in hell that I'll ever pay for a Nirvana album. It's not because I am a commie, it's because I genuinely don't want to hear their noise at all. I have in fact listened to commercials instead of Nirvana.
As recording and distribution technologies got cheaper, more and more people could jump on the bandwagon. Suddenly there was more and more music out there, and the people responsible for keeping the filth out were asleep at the wheel. Instead, this new awful music was considered "inventive" or "avant-garde" or "stripped-down" or "alternative."
Here's another thing: The Godfather is nearly entirely unwatchable today. So is Citezen Kane. So is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It's because CGI-obsessed hacks (and their explosion-and-boob-obsessed predecessors) have changed the rules. If your movie goes ten minutes without something exploding, no one will watch it. The only exception to this rule is the romance genre. And if I could explain how that genre stays afloat without sounding like a sexist monster, I could win a Pulitzer.
Yes, stagnation is bad, variety is the spice of life and all that. This does not justify bad music and bad movies. But this generation, and the one before it, doesn't seem capable of doing much else.
For a view that blames the consumers instead of the producers, go here.
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