Backseat Goodbye...

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I think Chad is a whiny little bitch musician with many negative thoughts.

So Backseat Goodbye’s Chad Sugg just posted a blog about today’s music industry. And I kind of just wanted to say…

Fuck off, Chad. Seriously, you need to stfu about how other bands market themselves. It’s really none of your business and you really don’t need to care.

Those other bands are only “wasting your time” because you’re letting them. You’re letting yourself care about something that has nothing to do with you personally at all.

Have you even considered that these bands are struggling to create music that you oh-so-don’t-believe they’re capable of making? That posting pictures is a way to make up for the fact that they have no new music?

Chad, please.

And I’m sure as hell that those bands out there don’t want to hear your shit. I don’t give a fuck if you’ve been in this industry for 5 years, I wouldn’t give a fuck it was 10 years.

Until you’re famous, and exceedingly successful,

Take your own fucking advice, and “let the music you make speak for itself.”

I’ll just say this, I feel like not enough people speak openly about their feelings about the industry. I know at least three of my closest artist friends that completely agree about what I posted, however, they’re much smarter than me by actually not posting about it. I can definitely understand how I may seem “whiney” to you and many others, but I’m really not trying to simply bitch about the situations I bring up. If you really look, I present the problem from many sides, and make sure it’s known that I’m not trying to point specific artists out.

I also pointed out that I understand it’s all of part of different artists’ approach to their own career, and that’s totally fine… I just don’t agree with it, because I can speak from the tiniest opinion of being the kid that started out with literally nothing other than a guitar and a laptop. So, I know that it is not absolutely necessary for kids to post constant photos to promote their music.

All in all, I feel bad that you think I’m constantly being whiney… I’m literally just presenting my own opinion on my own blog… And I really do try to come at every instance with a level-headed thinking about it. Granted, your post above is your own opinion on your own blog, so I definitely respect it… However, you pointed me out by name, so I simply wanted to respond to at least try and make it clear that I’m not trying to constantly whine about things.

Kids of tomorrow's music industry.

I write to you today, to ask you to take a step back and look at yourselves. I’m talking to the kids with an acoustic guitar in their room that sing to their walls, the kids in garages playing bass with gloves on their hands because the winter cold is leaking in through the bottom… In a big way, you are the future of the music industry.

Please, pay attention as I speak directly to the kids that are in the industry now…

For the kids that are in the music industry now, not all of you, but the select few of you that I believe are embarrassing the rest of us. See, I understand there are many factors in a successful music career: music, talent, image, lyrics, marketing, touring, etc… The thing I understand, but hate, is the over-exploitation of image. It’s fine to post photos of your band (or yourself, if you’re a solo-artist) regularly… But please understand there is a line that can be crossed (which is why I’m typing this.) I’ll go ahead and share the main point of all of this: If you’re posting more new photos of yourself than new music, you need to stop. If you’re in this industry to post photos of yourself instead of new music, then maybe you should consider taking up modeling instead. You’re wasting your fans’ time, you’re wasting my time, and you’re wasting the future of this industry’s time.

I’m not super worried about this, because I know things will work out the way they were meant to. This wave of making shitty music just so you can say you have a band and post photos of yourself in an attempt to ride the coatails of the people who make music with integrity will eventually end in the form it’s in now. It’ll start up again in a new form, but hopefully it will involve much less autotune and terrible lyrics, and trade that for at least something genuine.

I’m not here to point out exact instances of this occurance… I’m just here to let it be known that many of us in the music industry (at least us behind the actual music) are tired of this wave of kids focusing on their photo comments before their music. Be original, be yourself, and let the music you make speak for itself.

Cheers,
Chad