40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof
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40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof
It really is the last ride of the boomers. The mental model they operate with is just a smattering of lyrics from old rock songs by Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young. The world they live in mentally no longer exists and in trying to force it to exist they destroy what’s left.
Philip Pilkingtonx.comToday’s music landscape is one defined by abundance and immediacy. In a chronically-online world, everything is overground immediately. Scenes have to work really hard to stay underground and even then, some eagle-eyed A+R or marketing person is going to see the buzz and try to bottle its essence for wider consumption. Underground never stays
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The chopped and screwed (sped up/slowed) multiple versions thing isn't great, but the effect of Tik Tok/reels on the core songwriting and arranging of music, the attention deficit of listeners, and of us musicians, the immediately available metrics for labels and musicians, the fact we have to be great at social media but not really need to be
... See more🔵 So... when will change come?
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