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TV killing music industry?

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  • 03-05-2010 12:58am
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    sdanseo
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    TV talent shows killing music - Usher


    Usher has attacked TV talent shows, claiming they are killing the music industry.
    Just weeks after the singer appeared as a mentor on the current season of American Idol, Usher blasted the show and its rivals for making talented singers celebrities and then casting them aside.
    He says, "The true art form of music is being lost, because it seems so easy that everyone can do it, and that it can happen overnight. Television is a lie. It can't happen overnight. The artist who thinks that it can just comes and goes. The reason why great singers cannot exist in this time is maybe because they're not properly managed, and maybe they don't understand the full gamut of what being an entertainer is.
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    "We're dealing with an industry that is slowly but surely dying, every day. There's the record companies that are mass-producing these versions of these people; versions of this broken art. While it works, because it sells records, it damages the business."



    Source: http://www.rte.ie/arts/2010/0502/usher.html

    Anyone else completely agree with him? There's far too many different reality shows and all they're doing is producing one hit wonders. Good entertainment yeah, but are they ruining the business?


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    nommm
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    No. The people destroying the music industry are the record companies. The music industry has always been like this. They'll make a profit on you and then spit you out. They have always 'mass-produced' different versions of what is popular at the time. It was always the case long before 'talent' shows.


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