Senseless Entertainment an Intellectual Insult

Senseless Entertainment an Intellectual Insult

Have you ever seen an award show? MTV and BET are well known award show channels. I remember when the Grammy’s really meant something. There were many artists, but there were a few household names, that we tuned in to see. I remember when a Pop Artist won like 8 Grammy’s in one night, at the time it was unprecedented. It was a night of excitement for his fans. Times have changed in the world and business of music.

Now you can tune in for about a half an hour and you seen the show. It is like every year someone locks down the awards, because they know they cannot sell as many artists as before so they promote a handful, who is not necessarily elite or extraordinary.

Before there was a script that seemed to be written by excellent screenwriters, now it is like everyone is independent. It is like they televise award shows because it is a requirement and not an enterprising venture. And you can see thru it. As during these hard economic times, you can see right through it, because it is a joke and the artists are often struggling.

Maybe I am a little older and not as easily fooled. Perhaps the kids are still being hoodwinked. But the gathering seems senseless these days. Let us face it we live in a concert goer’s generation and not an album buying generation. Back in the 80’s and part of the 90’s a good music video or two and a good album got you paid in full. Now many artists have to perform live and they cannot do it.

Concerts have become huge productions and are too expensive for the average person to attend. One hundred dollars will put you in the balcony. The reason for this is that the raw talent is often missing, so stunts replace talent. So a lot of people cannot go on tour and record sales are down across the board. So who are these people attending the award shows? Most of them do not sell a million records after their release or even go gold at 500,000 and cannot do a major tour.

The game changed. In the old days people had to sing and had to work hard, now things are computer generated. You can pitch correct vocals, transpose them, record slow and playback fast, I mean there is so much that can be done with little effort. The evolution of the business of music is that it is becoming a middle class society. Very few artists are actually rich these days. So who are these people at the award shows? Certainly they are not royalty and not even necessarily talented.