Part 1: MY OPINION, EVERYONE HAS ONE

People over 30 tend to buy music josh grobin james blunt nora jones toby keith etc. Also, there are a lot of very poor illiterate people in this country who don't have computers there for are not freely swapping music and they go to their local corner shop and buy a rap cd which caters to the same audience over and over again people wanting to make it big in a stupid
superficial way aggression and a rich lifestyle that the artists don't even live themselves. The strokes, the libertines, starsailor, radiohead.
Why are they not selling 10 million albums?

Well, ipod wearing educated people tend toknow how to find their way around a computer easily and swap songs forfree this is a shame cause if you cant even pay your rent and you devote your life to your music it really is off putting who's to blame well no one its evolution look at global warming population growth its only normal that we would end up being able to communicate more efficiently what's cool well we can have web cam chats for free send tracks back and forth via email but if you have the talent to write an album like all that you cant
leave behind U2 nothing can stop you before people did what they were best at now days they want to boast that they did the whole album themselves cause of useless record
companies its a shame i am sure we could nurture another patsy cline but the cool critics would say, "Oh shes just a singer and her record company would not be able to find her good songs anyway I am sure we could encourage another burt bacharach to write a classic etc.

Doing it all your self is great, if you are as multitalented as prince but in most cases even the beatles its a collaboration. So, in a way home studios have given more people access to making music but the standard has gone down plus no kid has 18 dollars for a cd with only 2 good disposable songs on it so in the late 90s the record companies did it to themselves I dont know the future but i know people who love music will still listen to it people who like to write it will still write it people who like to perform it will still perform it we just need some real music lovers back behind the desk and chairs like the founder of atlantic records or Chris Blackwell island records with the means and ears to encourage and attract another, tea for the tillerman, cat stevens, bob marley, crosby stills and nash and young etc.

- adrian lechaczynski