Originally Posted by madm1k3

First off Kurt Cobain shot himself in the head to prevent himself from turning into Nickelback.

There are two types of Musicians, entertainers and artist

An entertainer just wants to be famous and has chose music as their path. I remember seeing Nickelback at a small event at a record store in BC in 1995. They looked like Nirvana (same hair, same clothes, even the same mannerisms) and sounded just like Nirvana. Over the span of thier career they have made nothing but radio friendly shit and their music will never stand the test of time.

Same thing with Lady Gaga, she played a small club in my city before she became famous. She looked like Madonna, sounded like Madonna, her show was a slut fest just like Madonna's. Now you can take pretty much anyone of her songs and substitute Madonna's music and it fits perfectly, its all the same shit re done.

The thing with Nickelback and Lady Gaga is that they were willing to whore themselves to be famous, change their music to radio friendly formats, change their look to suit trends, and basically sell out as hard as they can to be famous with making great music an after thought.

The problem is that leaves actual artists who want to create new music or try a whole new approach basically on their own. Record companies are looking for a Nickelback that they can control and make them put out the same BS until it stops selling then its on to the next whore.

The hope for artists is that recording gear is getting better and is now somewhat affordable for home recording. The advancements in this gear have been phenomenal and myself and a lot of my friends are doing all of our own recording. With the ability to get music distribution world wide on the net is has opened new channels of fan aquisition instead of the whore channels (ripping of the look and sound of major artists to get gigs at local shitty establishments).

Maynard is right, music in the future will be done by people who do it for the love of doing it. A musician just needs to ask himself am I an artist or a fame whore.