Backseat Goodbye | BLOG - Kids of tomorrow’s music industry.

February 7, 2010

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

3:28pm
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