I am not saying anybody is anti-production, but the statement was that in order to get noticed, producing was not the way to go (stated as a fact, not an opinion). And I do believe there are some very succesful people who have proven that statement to be at the very least too black and white.
Then the statement is made that the -isms require skills, implying that producing doesn’t require skills, which -apart from being clearly untrue- is also rather derogatory towards producers.
Hence my reaction.
As far as producing for popularity as opposed to creativity is concerned, I don’t think that one necessarily excludes the other. Yes, there are very creative people that care nothing about popularity and suffer in dark attics and those less creative perhaps but with a better eye for what sells that make enough money to allow them to get noticed and perhaps slowly start introducing more and more of their own into their productions.
To each his own I say, but I don’t agree that just because a track is popular and the masses like it, there was no creativity involved in the creation of it or that it isn’t “real” music.
I have this with Jazz. I love mainstream stuff. And I know many fusion and experimental Jazz musicians spit on that kind of Jazz. It’s not considered music, too “commercial” (since when is it a sin to want to make some money doing what you love doing?), etx. Having been dragged to a few of those “concerts” and jam sessions and often had the feeling I was caught in a particularly horrible animal shelter where each animal was being cruely tortured. I could not find rhythm, just a cacophony of sounds.
Does that mean I don’t understand music? Perhaps, but I know what I like and if others think that is not music then tough sh*t, but others don’t dictate what I can consider music or what I should or shouldn’t like.
Imho the discussion of what is or isn’t good/real music is mute, as it is totally personal. Shooting something because most people like it (and if the plebs like and understand it, it really can’t be real/good music, right) is not right.
I respect everybody’s choice in the matter. And if I don’t like what you like, then that is fine. The other way around I don’t expect anybody to like all the music I like (although as a DJ it helps if lots of others DO like what I like 😀 ). I will, however, not say to someone that what he/she likes isn’t real music or isn’t good music. Just that it isn’t my taste, my kind of music.
Greetinx.
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