Mick Jagger Made My Day

| Posted: 19-01-2008 | Comments: 0 | Views: 5 | Rating: (52)

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This is the news from Times today:

"Sir Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones are preparing to follow Sir Paul McCartney and Radiohead and abandon EMI, the crisis-stricken British record label.

The likely defection of the world’s most commercially savvy rock band is a further blow to the credibility of EMI’s new owner, the venture capitalist Guy Hands, who is striving to cut costs amid an artists’ revolt. Sir Mick met Mr Hands during the negotiations over a renewal of the band’s existing EMI contract, but the financier whose best man was William Hague, did not make enough of an impression to persuade him to commit to a new deal."

The music industry, as we know it, is changing right under our noses. How many people buy CDs? Well, a lot more than three years ago, and to blame is, of course, the digital music outlets, like iTunes and Napster and of course, the illicit file sharing. Now, I love to buy a CD, to go to the store, take a look at all the offers, check the cover and the playlist on the back and ultimately take it home, tear the cellophane wrap and put in in the CD player. But when was the last time I did it?; that's right, almost one year ago. Because when you have iTunes installed on your computer, and you have all the music in the world so accessible and eager for you to download it, that you just want to skip the foreplay and go for it right here and right now. Also, who carries CDs with them any longer? Because once you buy it and you add it to your music library for your mp3 player, the CD it's just a nice piece of decoration on your dusted CD rack.

Now, what's that got to do with Mick Jagger, you may ask? Well, a CD is inevitably the product of a record company deal. They sign you up, help you produce the album, promote it for you, sell it for you and ultimately pay you the royalties. Does Rolling Stones need all of these? Nada. They can do it easily all buy themselves and sell the music digitally, like the savvy people from Radiohead did it before them. So, basically, companies like EMI lost their negotiation power with their artists, because they have nothing much to offer them. So they need to change their optics, and you what, I'm glad, because so much shitty music I have listened, whether I wanted it or not, just because the people from EMI and the likes pushed it and pushed it on the commercial radios to promote their "stars". Well, apparently they can't do that any longer now, in the peak of the digital era, people can't be so easily manipulated. Because you have so many sources to procure your music. The music that you truly like.

So this poor Guy, hehe, landed in the music business in the worst possible moment. Until six month before, when he bought the company, he owned a successful financial company. But I guess he got tired of it, and he wanted to be cool, to hang out with cool people, like Thom Yorke, Macca and Mick Jagger, but they just didn't accept him. Bummer.

I've seen Rolling Stones live, and trust me, they don't need anyone to start them up.

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