So i've been thinking about a certain point about the amateur music scene (really my own name, probably doesn't exist, but i'm referring to the many people on myspace or even on this website that make their homegrown music and post it online).
So my friend is one of these people. He makes really great music, sometimes a bit avant-garde or different but its still great. he's relly prolific and sometimes can just roll out songs, whether they may be rock or dance songs.
but it seems to me that he's really being selfish about his music. it seems he only really makes it for himself. i tell him about taking it to someone (which he sorta has done, but not really) or like really try to make a name for himself on the internet or at school or whatever. he says he's just 'refining' his abilities and that when he's out of school (he's 16/17 at the moment) he's going to try and really go somewhere with it.
ok so now i had this thought. these days it's apparently so easy to get your music online and get noticed if your music is good enough. but i thought about that. because it's so easy, one finds so many people doing it and it just gets so full of people that think they make awesome music. this posting music thing online is great but can really get used and abused and may just become a big pit where one can't find anything REALLY of substance.
perhaps that's why he doesn't want to do the whole internet thing, because there's so many and how can one possibly get noticed out of this huge pit where the 'amateur music scene' lives.
what are your guys thoughts on this?
(PS me or him are neither against this ineternet music thing as a concept but it's just what seems to be happening to it)
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