jah geek writes:
quoted 5 lines it would seem to me that everyone who is supportive/understanding of this> it would seem to me that everyone who is supportive/understanding of this
> whole thing are overlooking the fact that the actions of trent reznor are
> taking an artform - one developed by people with actual talent and ability
> - not the luxury of time,money or others willing to give life to their own
> individual visions, and is reducing it to a commodity to be consumed.
all art is commodity (unless you don't attempt to sell it at all of
course). to think otherwise is naive.
quoted 2 lines trent reznor is merely cashing in on what the true artists are doing for no> trent reznor is merely cashing in on what the true artists are doing for no
> reason other than greed.
how do you know this? maybe he honestly loves what he's doing but he
just doesn't have the talent to create something new? i know plenty
of local unknown musicians who are into it "For Art" but just churn
out a lot of sucky music cos they don't have any talent.
quoted 4 lines but then i ask..whats the difference between someone creating a track with> but then i ask..whats the difference between someone creating a track with
> samples that someone culled for them and someone making a track from any of
> those sample-loop cd's that are advertised in all the keyboard
> magazines...does the fact that its "trent reznor" justify it in any way?
i think the whole argument is pointless and irrelevant. what if you
learned that your favorite ever track in the whole world had a (gasp)
preset sound in it? or a loop that the artist's sister found and told
him to use? how does that make the track any less valuable? is Pump
Up The Volume suddenly a crap track because all the sounds in it can
be found on any one of a dozen sample CDs?
it ain't the sample, it's what you do with it.
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