Hey folks,
Good to hear from all of you. Great perspective on CRS Ed. My thoughts exactly. I actually missed it this year just like I did last year. It actually quit a day earlier. Since I just go to laugh at people, I didn't miss much.
John, your experience pretty much matches anyone else I know in the industry. Always brings me back to the question I have always had, "Why does anyone ever expect to make money in this industry?" Never get much of an answer on that one.
Ott, thanks for viewing the videos and particpating. I like the girls in the video. And it was their idea to do the video in that way. I had nothing to do with it. In fact, I didn't even know about the song being cut until the video link was sent to me. I don't know the girls or anything about them other than they cut that song. The song was written between five and six years ago and frankly something I forgot about. My co-writer did the leg work on it. She is quite a cute girl herself so writing the subject matter of the song was pretty easy to do. Glad those girls did it and another interesting thing about writing.
For all your techies, Ed, Kevin, Phil or others keeping up with the "streaming/free/paid subscription "(FREE") music world, I have a question. How come SPOTIFY and PANDORA, while seemingly ruling the roost when it comes to music streaming (and in my opinion part of the reason we no longer get PAID for anything) are ALWAYS TRYING TO RAISE MONEY, ALWAYS LISTING LOSSES, ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT GOING INTO BANKRUPTCY? If they have such a great business model and supposedly are worth so much (although this article claims Pandora is now worth $1.8 Billion dollars DOWN from EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS just a couple years ago) why are they having money worries at all? They should be flush with cash and subscribers.
For all the claims of how much they are paying songwriters, they are constantly having to come up with NEW DEALS, and then there is not ONE SONGWRITER I KNOW IN ANY FACET OF THE BUSINESS CLAIMING TO MAKE ANYTHING ON THESE SERVICES. They are all like John, literally pennies and tenths of pennies.
Could it be what I have always said that ONCE YOU MAKE SOMETHING FREE YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO COLLECT ON IT?
Oh well. AS one of those OLD dinosaurs who believe that the Internet has pretty much ruined an industry, I'll just wait and see when they finally pull off all these supposed riches they have hidden somewhere. Personally I believe all these services are the same people behind the Nigerian General scam and one day will end up in a cell with Bernie Madoff for perpetrating fraud on the entire music world.
But I'm not BITTER. LOL!
MAB
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