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Bull****.

Music is the best it has ever been. This dude is as much of a mainstream yuppie as the people's he's talking **** about. He's literally on this huge label talking about mainstream label *******s.


People who say this is the worst time for music are ignorant as ****, or they are old and bitter because their studio / label slave version of rock isn't viable anymore There's literally a DIY revolution happening where people don't need these labels anymore if they push themselves hard enough. Artists like Ani DiFranco, Pretty Lights, The Knife, I could go on and on. That dude is so full of ****.

Not to mention the hardcore pretentious claim that people stole that guitar sound from them.

1.) They didn't even invent that sound, so he's literally taking credit for it and calling other people derivative when they are equally derivative. Didn't come up with it. Don't take credit for it. Don't bitch when people replicate it.

2.) If you are so concerned with being "copied", maybe you should try being more creative and being less easily copied.

Let's take two influential artists -- Bjork, and The Knife.

Bjork is easily one of the most influential artists in contemporary music. From single-handedly inventing Dance Pop to putting glitch sounds on the map, to molding orchestral, organic sounds and samples with electronic aesthetics. Bjork's legacy is impossible to deny. Her influence is incredible, both in the mainstream and the alternative / experimental scene. I can't think of a single artist that sounds like Bjork, because noone CAN sound like Bjork.

Now let's look at The Knife. Totally revitalized synthpop and put dark, moody electronic pop with dance elements back on the map in 2004-2006. Pretty much revolutionary use of pitch shifting on the vocals.

What are we hearing so much of now adays? dark, moody electronic pop with dance elements and pitch shifted / detuned vocals. None of them managed to replicate what The Knife did, but the influence was annoyingly evident, so what did they do? Instead of becoming bitter parodies of themselves and bitching about the "state of the music industry", they adapted, and turned the entire genre on it's head, once again, with Shaking the Habitual, incorporating drone and noise and linear, harsh, tribal dance songs, soundscapes. They went from dark and electronic -- ethereal and subdued to bright as **** and booming, intense, vivid experimental dance music.

This dude is bitter, old, and out of touch. He was never unique to begin with. He's claiming ownership of a style of music, which is immature, especially since it's a style of music he didn't even invent. I'm starting to see a lot of post grunge, washed out 40 somethings who are talking about 'the state of the industry', but what they fail to realize is that there is an entirely new industry happening right under their nose. They are just too washed up and tired to get on board.