YearZeroHeavy Metal BakesalePremium
join:2001-08-28
| Grammy's all about the benjamins.... There are a lot of things in the music industry that just straight up suck...
1) execs are stealing money from people they represent and call it fair business.
2) Grammy's are to me fixed because if bob dylan, who is a good musician in his own right, put out a cd of him farting it would get grammy nods based only on the fact that bob dylans name is on it.
3) THis is not to sound racists and please don't think about it the wrong way but it seems that if you look back over time its seems that if there is a black women who is up for an award she usualy does really well no matter who she is against in the same category. The grammy's kind of use these black women as a way to say, "look we vote for black women too and this is our sacrifice to the NAACP and such so they won't be up in our face for being racists." I mean if you look back to lauren hills album she was one of hte only black women up for an award and she took home a ton of them. I think alisha keys is good and put out some quality work but to go and clean house in that fashion seems kind of unheard of. Is the album that good? I guess it is up to the person listening.
4) U2 is the most hypocritical piece of shyt I have ever heard... Bono and his crew had the largest profits for a tour the last year and the highest priced tickets. yet you see his ass out there saying how we should help with 3rd world debt and relieve it... how about you relieve some debt on the tickets to your shows. Also in an interview when asked about the prices he basically said he thinks the prices are kind of high but the fans pay for it so they must not have a problem with it.
5) the piracy won't go away until the execs realize they might not get there millions from making whores out of musicians. Once the fools leave I think there can then be an understanding of what direction we should then take in the face of piracy. I know right now it will never end. Personally if I want one or two songs off a cd that I know is crap I am not going to buy it... They sit and complain about how much money they lost last year due to record sales and don't even think that maybe the product has something to do with it. That is ignorance and a good sign of people we are dealing with.
ok that is all I have to say.. and the for the record I am not racist and that comment is not meant to be expressed that way.
oh side note Micheal Greene makes 2 million a year the most out of any non profit orgranization in the world....ironic isn't it...makes you think...
[text was edited by author 2002-02-28 19:26:41] |
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| cry me a river. that d00d said it was killing new artists with low margins. boo joo, im sure 1 hit wonder along the way will replace the one that was *lost*
remember hanson? the riaa owes all of us money for putting that @!#$ in the air |
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 BrooklynZooFor Everthing Else, There's Mastercard
join:2001-04-01
Atlanta, GA
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In regards to your comments about black women in The Grammys, you may be right. That definitely highlights a bigger problem in general.
If what you are saying is right, then we have to take a look at a deeper issue. The issue being groups having the option of saying, "see, I gave your people/group/etc. an award. Now you cannot call me a racist or accuse me of not including you." That is one of the reasons I appreciate award shows like The Soul Train Music Awards or The Essence Awards. The African American community get a chance to honor their artists in the way they see fit.
Man will always find more ways to separate himself from others than to see himself in others. In addition, you must also realize culturally, differences exist. Embrace the race, meaning the human race .
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"What?" - WWF's "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
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YearZeroHeavy Metal BakesalePremium
join:2001-08-28 | reply to YearZero
I totally accept all the human races and I think the problem that the grammys present is that they do what is necessary to make money. Its kind of sick. |
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