Blog post 'A worring undercrrent in social networking'
A worring undercrrent in social networking
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my trigg profile gets less traffic then my myspace profile.
thats fair enough, myspace is a homogonised monster, everyone has a space.
ill get about 10 friend requests a week on myspace to about 3 on trigg.
but a pattern has emerged with the purpose and source of theese friend requests.
they are all, and i mean ALL bands, or orginisations.
now i know im in a bit of a bad space trying to create music in todays sociaty, i hear twenty somthings describe music as absolutly essential to life. Its not, espically not in the cantralised manner that the recording industry has fed us, music, comes from a band.
In a room of 20 people you can bet at east 18 of them will be in a band, so to say there is any kind of supply and demand balence here is rubbish. I am increadabley fortunate that i have had the ability to break even on a cd release, this is been less to do with good promotion or talent as it has been to do with my own stupidity. none of my peers would ever concider sinking £1000 into a release.
So at this moment in time, in such a saturated market why do we as artists still take the bate from social networking sites?
things like trigg, humblevoice and vrib are massive echo chambres where 10 bands scramble for the attention of one punter, no one is to blaim, but we need to remember that when the whole system just grinds to a halt.... maby 'they' are just concentrating us all into one space to make us easier to destroy...
thats fair enough, myspace is a homogonised monster, everyone has a space.
ill get about 10 friend requests a week on myspace to about 3 on trigg.
but a pattern has emerged with the purpose and source of theese friend requests.
they are all, and i mean ALL bands, or orginisations.
now i know im in a bit of a bad space trying to create music in todays sociaty, i hear twenty somthings describe music as absolutly essential to life. Its not, espically not in the cantralised manner that the recording industry has fed us, music, comes from a band.
In a room of 20 people you can bet at east 18 of them will be in a band, so to say there is any kind of supply and demand balence here is rubbish. I am increadabley fortunate that i have had the ability to break even on a cd release, this is been less to do with good promotion or talent as it has been to do with my own stupidity. none of my peers would ever concider sinking £1000 into a release.
So at this moment in time, in such a saturated market why do we as artists still take the bate from social networking sites?
things like trigg, humblevoice and vrib are massive echo chambres where 10 bands scramble for the attention of one punter, no one is to blaim, but we need to remember that when the whole system just grinds to a halt.... maby 'they' are just concentrating us all into one space to make us easier to destroy...
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although for my part i hit you up entirely because i've been hunting the infest line up n have finally realized that you're an incredible musician (and i actually mean that in the sense of having a fair portion of musical talent, rather than just being some smeg'ed who thinks that twatting things, screaming and claiming that it's called "hardcore" and caslling himself a "musician")
Just hit them up, and they'll come running - the people are out there, they just expect YOU to go to THEM. Lazy cunts.