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Originally Posted by Buzzov*en
My question was a yes or no one really.
He deserves every bit of it honestly.
He is a piece of **** who has never made one good song in his career. He was apart of that ****ty hair metal scene and luckily that was killed off.
Bands make money on tours and merch sales not album sales. He is just a dinosaur. Just like the industry that is being destoryed which is a great thing. Just because the industry is having a hard time does not mean there will not be music.
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I feel I have to comment on this as well: So, after this ridiculously opinionated comment of yours in which you slash an entire, quite popular genre and refuse to admit that Bon Jovi might have written something half decent in his entire musical career (you don't think it might just not be your taste?), don't you think Bon Jovi's entitled to his opinion as well?
You might not agree with it, but what he said is going to strike true with a lot of people out there.
Firstly, he said two different things, only slightly, but it's important. The first is that he didn't say Steve Jobs Killed music, he said that he felt Steve Jobs had killed the
music business, which you can argue quite well. There's a fairly large different between the two, and you might consider music business as Bon Jovi considers it to be obsolete, but it doesn't make him any less right.
He
Then goes on to say why this saddens him, and yes, Oojay, he does mention the unknown aspect of an album, and I agree with him. If completely kills some of the aspects of getting a new album and listening to it for the first time if you have had a 90 second preview of all the tracks beforehand. I don't think it's feasibly possible to argue that it doesn't take away from the mystery.
If I was going through the effort to release albums with songs that
I felt were all worthwhile and fitted together as an album (just bear with me, rather than reading this far and going on a JBJ rant), I'd be pretty pissed that people were just going and buying the hit singles. It encourages the Pop-orientated release a flashy single and then another until you have enough to make a greatest hits approach. I
like albums, I know the vast majority of people here do as well. And I know that every one of you knows an album you love thish has some pretty bad songs on it, but you love it anyway because the album is great. Would you get rid of those songs, if you could? I know I wouldn't, because it would change the album, it wouldn't be the same thing, even if all you were doing was removing the weaker songs.
In conclusion: RVCA - Do you really think it's fair to call someone a whiny old fogey for just answering a question someone put to you? If he had gone out of his way to make this statement, then I'd agree with you, but he obviously hasn't.
Buzz*ven - If you're going to make ridiculously opinionated statements, try allowing other people to have their own opinions as well.
Oojay - The iTunes "buy the hut singles" approach kills albums, I've started seeing among my own friends, and I don't like it.
As a final note, yes, you could argue that Steve Jobs is just one person responsible for the expansion of the online music industry, and that greedy publishing companies are as responsible for it as anyone else, but have you ever looked at exactly how much artists actually get from iTunes transactions? How much do they get, when you buy their hit single for 99c?
That's right, a whopping 10c.