Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy

Re:Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy by WalterBright on Sunday December 20, 2020 @06:14PM (#25490506)

I'm kinda the opposite. Modern music (to me) seems to be largely consisting of artists who cannot sing and have no tone to their voice, relying excessively on autotune and copious amounts of other digital tweaking of their voices. Playing any instrument other than a guitar seems to have vanished. Sadly, nobody plays a trumpet anymore (see Chicago and Herb Alpert). No synthesized horn sounds remotely like a trumpet and a skilled blower.

So I go back to artists that were great in the 60s and 70s and look for other albums of theirs - found a lot of stuff I really like that way.

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Re:Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy by ryathal on Monday December 21, 2020 @10:05AM (#25495526)

Somewhere in the late 90s to early 2000s, physical appearance was more important than actual talent for performing artists. The 70s and 80s had a fairly large amount of "ugly" artists.

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Re:Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy by WalterBright on Monday December 21, 2020 @06:25PM (#25500973)

I presume MTV changed that. You needed a great video to have a hit song. Hence Duran Duran, A-ha, etc.

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Re:Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy by vikiomega9 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:43PM (#25617315)

Morten Harket also had an amazing voice though.

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Re:Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy by WalterBright on Sunday December 20, 2020 @06:24PM (#25490581)

I have no idea how the Family Guy makers keep coming up with such great material. The whole Bloofis and Klunt routine still cracks me up days later.

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