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Originally Posted by Igottago
The internet is slowly killing music, and I don't mean just from a piracy standpoint. More is not better, it is just more. I'm sick of hearing about all the "next big things", which someone found on the internet and wants to take credit for. 99% of the bands that get hyped up aren't really great anyways. Bands are having less and less longevity and don't get to develop careers, they seem to have to create an impact with 1 or 2 records and then they disappear. The internet is watering down the talent pool, just like expansion does in hockey. It seems for every 1 artist who does get discovered and has some actual talent, you get 200 hacks who have the right haircut and clothes to be marketed.
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Well, another thing the internet can do, and very quickly, is promote someone with marginal talent, who for some reason or other, has struck the emotional chords of people and they buy into the internet phenomenon.
example, the promotion of Paul Potts, the amateur so called opera singer. He was a car salesman, won a talent contest in Britain, had a background that you feel sorry for the guy, and then the internet took off with how he is the up and coming Pavarotti. not!!!