A wonderful interview with my friend Fabrizio Paterlini on Whatever Takes Your Fancy. He is talking about why the internet is such a useful tool to musicians, especially those who don’t have the huge budget available to them to make and distribute phsyical versions of their music (let alone find a place for them on High Street shops). Read it here.
In contrast, I read recently that Prince said “the internet is over” and that he doesn’t want his music released online as it doesn’t pay him a big enough advance. What an arrogant, anachronistic, backwards view to take - the internet has broken open the monopoly that big labels and the press had over what artists can be heard by an audience and how audiences listen to and buy music. We may not all be able to afford massive studio costs or have the giant advertising and promotional budgets like Prince, but it doesn’t mean our music is invalid or that music by major label artists is actually any ‘better’.
I think that Prince is over!
