"Music Industry Sees Fastest Growth in More Than 20 Years"

[lgstarr]

Well, I just hope we all get rich

https://www.bloomberg.com/technology

--Linda

[Len911]

unfortunately, all the growth was in streaming according to the article, it also mentions that Spotify plans to list shares on the NY
stock exchange next month.

[davidsteven]

There's something missing in the music business today... furthermore, it's music. Tunes you hear don't last, it's simply item sustained to you by the business. There are a huge number of individuals who expend music illicitly consistently. Simply getting them into a legitimate administration will make the music business path greater than it's at any point been previously.

[lgstarr]

There's something missing in the music business today... furthermore, it's music. Tunes you hear don't last, it's simply item sustained to you by the business. There are a huge number of individuals who expend music illicitly consistently. Simply getting them into a legitimate administration will make the music business path greater than it's at any point been previously.

I'm not sure I quite understand your meaning (some grammatical confusion) but I am reminded about how "disposable" music is in our culture. Every store, restaurant and elevator pumps out the stuff and, in my opinion, it's horrible. I think it's bad for the human nervous system (especially as you age) and I would probably go nuts and start shooting up the place if I had to work in some of these retail outlets. An old Sicilian friend in the movie industry once told me that a REALLY great restaurant will have NO music--just found the only decent (and really good) Chinese restaurant in our area and...no music! LOVE IT.

But think about it. In Mozart's time music wasn't everywhere. In fact, it was nowhere unless you could afford the occasional live performance or unless you made your own music.

Why the hell does an elevator need music, anyway?

[PhilRey]

But think about it. In Mozart's time music wasn't everywhere. In fact, it was nowhere unless you could afford the occasional live performance or unless you made your own music.

Why the hell does an elevator need music, anyway?

(I'm ok with the elevator thing - more stressful than the idea to fall down, most of the time)

Regardig Mozart and access to music at this time (end of 18th C.) in Austria, and Europe in general, music was very present, so I'm not sure to agree with what you said. People where playing music together a lot and dancing, and singing. Eventually more than now (sadly). In every village.. They could aslo have access to a cheap theater for a play with music (musical), or some kind of bohemian show.... They could buy sheet music (Mozart did "a lot" of money with his) to play them on their piano or violin at home... Not talking about religious music very present in any church and/or monastary... But maybe you're talking only about classical music in luxurious theaters (as we call it nowdays) ? That for sure, was not for everybody.. -Phil

[Len911]

With the exception of Chinese music in a Chinese restaurant, I agree, music shouldn't be everywhere, unless it's music I can sing with and dance to everywhere!

[jdstamper]

PhilRey is right. Elevator music was "invented" in the early days of elevators, to help riders stay calm, because in those days accidents were disturbingly frequent.

Elevator music did help to elevate rider-ship numbers.

To update the idea, maybe we should start producing driverless car music.

[lgstarr]

Regardig Mozart and access to music at this time (end of 18th C.) in Austria, and Europe in general, music was very present, so I'm not sure to agree with what you said. People where playing music together a lot and dancing, and singing. Eventually more than now (sadly). In every village.. They could aslo have access to a cheap theater for a play with music (musical), or some kind of bohemian show.... They could buy sheet music (Mozart did "a lot" of money with his) to play them on their piano or violin at home... Not talking about religious music very present in any church and/or monastary... But maybe you're talking only about classical music in luxurious theaters (as we call it nowdays) ? That for sure, was not for everybody.. -Phil

You're right, of course...but so am I: music wasn't EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME the same way it is today!! Now it's cheap (as in common, not as in cost) and disposable for sure (in my opinion). Plus, I really think that some of it can sometimes be physiologically damaging when it's LOUD and RELENTLESS and INESCAPABLE, especially given the degree to which many people (especially young people and especially young men) are medicated with psychiatric drugs these days (and I have hard stats on that).

Years ago I decided to try an experiment and live with total silence and then got addicted to that...and then got married for the second time and the tv and sports etc. etc. were always on and that was the end of that. But it was very interesting.

[PhilRey]

I totally agree on the "silence therapy". Not sure about the cheap thing though.. there is good, and bad.. like it always had... (I hear a lot of very good stuff regarding pop for exemple, very creative these days). Sad though that this is not what we usually are "forced" to listen to in shops, restaurants etc...

I agree that what is insane, is this sort of totalitarism of music in our society.. shops, trains, restaurants, elevators, etc... You can't barely go anywhere downtown without being exposed. Definitely a kind of polution. This is definitely not ok for me (and it's sometimes awefully loud!). You should have the choice (like with cigaret for example). But you don't. I'm like you, I hate this, it's physically painful, and most of the time I have to stay outside the shop when shoping with my wife, which is not cool obviously.. Or I use earplugs...

What I also notice is that this over exposition to music is mainly about "cheap music" as you call it, not with various genres. Always the same kind of main stream harmonies, rythms and frequencies... Very annoying. Mainly when we have so much good stuff outhere !

We are definitely not a society of "silence". Less and less unfortunately. I observe that silence (like emptiness) scares most of the people. Mainly young people. But I also remember a time as a teenager when I was listening to music 24/7. It was litteraly feeding me, as essential as oxygen . So I try to be compassionate, but not sure though how what I am "forced" to listen to in these shops feeds anybody nowdays... it has more to do with a sort of subliminal mantra that is supposed to put the majority of people (which I'm definitely not part of) in a good mood, so they buy more... ? Or maybe it has to do with a sort of auditive hypnotism... Or simply basic familiarity, you feel like "at home".. (omg).. And yes, for the majority, silence is scary. Definitely very uncounscious programs runnning there, to the benefit of consumerism...But also a dictatorship, that I'm definitely tired of.

I imagine spending a day downtown without music, nothing, just the sounds of life... That would be something (and it's crazy/scary to think that it would be exceptional when it should be just "normal"...).

[Len911]

I lived in peaceful silence once when I lived in the country. Now I live in the suburbs amongst the middle class, middle-aged and older people. They are always running noisy equipment lawn mowers, chain saws, hammers, leaf blowers roto tillers, weedeaters,
anything that makes noise so that the neighbors will hear them and think how tidy and hardworking they are! Of course the older people can't hear so they have to buy the loudest equipment.