Did the Internet Ruin or Help the Music Industry? Skrillex, Bruno Mars, and more

Did the Internet Ruin or Help the Music Industry – Skrillex, Bruno Mars, OK Go, The Civil Wars, Austin City Limits, Why Artists Don’t Get Paid in Money……

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all over Los Angeles least at least

during Grammy weekend cuz everyone’s

like who is this Skrillex guy and people

are talking about I was like oh my god

he’s the most unique thing he’s had been

he’s changed how electronic music is and

it’s electronic music that you cannot

grasp or rhythm to and and anybody

listens to electronica music knows that

dubstep has been around for a while and

it didn’t originate in the United States

right it’s it’s there’s a dubstep

channel on Spotify if you like Skrillex

you should probably go listen to some

dope them I mean that’s like saying so

here’s a belly dance music pour

McDonough invented dance music that’s

that’s probably more or less like it’s

like giving your credit what we’re doing

well well let’s face now a lot of people

listen to sort of the age of 30 and they

actually think Madonna invented dance

music so let’s say there’s something a

little more broad like you know that the

blues music existed because you watch

the Looney Tunes cartoons you know blues

and jazz existed so you know very well

the black guy keys in that that’s

exactly right y’all in the Black Keys

are doing original you like yeah these

are my keys the Black Keys slack he’s

like there’s nothing there’s nothing

that the Black Keys are doing that

hasn’t been done exactly you know even

White Stripes for that matter a lot that

Y is very safe so yeah yeah

el is an awesome so he’s gonna name

fancy you guys never heard of anything

says really popular nobody’s learning

the Black Keys unless you’re really in

any music right so so I don’t know who

actually plays it oh you know what Bruno

Mars the perfect that’s like saying

Bruno Mars invented R&B you know very

well that he did not he plays a very

old-school R&B style Yeah right but you

know very well that Bruno Mars didn’t

because R&B has been around and you’ve

heard RB but unfortunately Skrillex can

take credit for dubstep because the like

dose that was pretty underground well I

don’t think he did credit for I think it

just happened I think I think people put

that on him right and he just doesn’t

correct them which is a hard tough thing

to be if you’re homeless one day and

you’re 24 obvious people like oh my god

dude you’re amazing you invented this

money

what are you doing fucking

what do you say if I walked up to the

guy working behind the counter at

McDonald’s like Jesus Christ have you

invented a hamburger oh my god the grace

mentioned here is 17 million dollars I

want you to now run 50 restaurants

across the country is the greatest

invention just because I’m too stupid to

know that this kid didn’t invent

hamburger he was making one because he

worked at McDonald I we’re kind of

belaboring the point is that parents

Calista has all these deals to produce

other records let’s do one of the

richest kids in America yeah and he’s

also hired to Bell to basically produce

in work with all these popular artists

and that’s Brett he’s not a brand right

so it’s it’s not it’s different right so

but going on this others there’s

something we left out Ok Go did present

the awards got been kind of awesome that

did kind of span over you know Skrillex

right and and one of the mundane okay

goat

said was you know hey it’s for the weird

that we’re selected to give these awards

because you know when we you know back

you know ten years ago you know

everybody in this room was the industry

right you know and with the advent of

the internet you know that really kind

of changed you know gave the power to

you know millions and millions of

millions people because it’s no longer

you know some producer or executive or

engineer made a decision to work with

somebody that gets them get simplicity

it’s now anybody can go out there and

make something and it’s the people that

hell are really allowed mates and to

really dictate what things are popular

and there’s no better example than that

fucking Friday song right there Friday

Friday all of us because this girl had

this song on YouTube and then blew up

right right okay go that’s how they made

it they made they made these really

interesting interesting cool videos that

went viral on YouTube and now they’re

giving other grants but those from

they’re still gatekeepers and huge

barriers of injury oh and there’s it’s

still heavily Boomer controlled but it’s

comparatively to ten years ago it seems

like an open playing field to everyone

in the industry right like okay go is

still it has to be pretty contrived and

a lot of money via to break something

like that right but compared to the ten

years ago okay go

and Skrillex well that’s exactly chef is

out of out of the box

it helps perpetual it’s still an

illusion that any man can do it what

must it but but it’s much better tenors

well let’s just put it this way and I

think Islands a little more than issue

that I am skillets would not exist ten

years ago they would not let the kid do

it exciting witness told his ideas act

right or they would tell you like oh wow

that’s how you doing and they would have

produced their own through Rick Rick

Rubin right and Madonna or Lady Gaga

ripped it off and suppose we’re never

gonna fucking dies

alright so the risk Felix wouldn’t heat

when he got the award from ok go so look

I was inspired by you guys because guess

what we’re very much like were very much

kin in the fact that you know if it

wasn’t for the internet we wouldn’t be

here right now

that is true that is very good Richard

um and so you know so I thought that was

so the humbleness but also making that

point it changed it because it was the

first there was a multitude of people

that went up and really kind of when

they in the pre top cast only mentioned

that man you know it wasn’t about

selling records it was about you know

the internet and you know in people

word-of-mouth getting music out there so

that they could have a career right and

one of them one of the groups that one

was the civil wars or something it’s

about civil war it’s a duet team every

country and they’re really good oh yeah

and I was great you never checked it out

but it’s really this like it really is

you know old-time music you know it’s

doable know there intend up but it

happens right name for that band by the

way yes describes it pretty well but it

has but it has soul it’s authentic and

they’re counted it is moving you know

it’s made with some emotion right and

that’s Ernie so they came out and then

they’re like and here they they flat out

said you know cuz they want also the pre

telecast they say I think all those

people that went out there and actually

ripped the CD and gave it to a friend

because like he like look where we are a

van band like we’re still indie like

we’re here we’re nominated we’re

surprised we are and we wanted to even

more overwhelming but we’re driving from

from city to city year long this guy’s

got four kids and a wife at home that’s

rarely see them because in order and

this is something that I try to explain

the people oh but when nama and I were

in college roommates together

we had a friend who is a harmonica

player in a band and he actually had a

gold record right and he traveled you

know he jam with him all the time it was

great you know blues jams whatever and

but he was on the road constantly it was

in a five or six piece band and his w2

said $40,000 it sucks so he sold you

know gold record was at 100,000 records

boats cool gold is 500 convert doesn’t

so half a million records right

traveling every day we way from his

girlfriend right I think he was up I

think it seems to married the girl and

he made $40,000 like you know and and so

you know it goes back to you the the

actual bullshit that is actual music

industry because you know the end of day

is the the artists are half the hustle

and it’s the fat cats are really in the

bacon the money it really is right and

if you a slave got some little

perspectives the artist matter how

talented they are cannot break through

to the ear so all those other people are

acting like we artist gets paid at the

fame and talent and if a man attention

break not money unfortunate truth and

I’m even saying this as an artist the

unfortunate truth is the industry is

everybody else behind us is what makes

us money and that’s it like no matter

how great you are

it’s your PR foe to the marketing guy to

the genius doing the studies and and the

guy whose foot in the millions and

billions of dollars it takes to get

through American ears now I say American

ears because in Europe people actually

if you’re listen to us in Europe you’re

like what the fuck are you talking about

I listen to music like it’s fun it’s

different in the United States where

nobody has time energy or desire to

figure out what that what they like in

America you know we don’t own our own

figure out what we like we are given

options we are told options you can

choose between a B C and D because we

culturally don’t learnings water

landings is the blunt way to say it my

polite way of saying is we culturally

don’t feel like we have time and

roadways or desire to have our own

opinions and so we would rather somebody

tell us what we like and we can and we

feel like we made a choice because we

can choose between Chris Brown and Nicki

when the Civil War so I choose one of

those therefore I made a choice it

doesn’t work that way outside of the US

so yeah I know it a lot of you are in

Sweden right now listening to this and

you’re like what what are you talking

about that you guys are insane what kind

of Nazi prison camp are you living in

but that’s America right so yeah so

which is which is always makes fun of me

as I live in Austin Texas you know

that’s one of the things we’re Austin

that has a scene it’s where you know you

kind of have it where you know every

other city that I’ve lived in I’ve lived

in a you know usually when it’s up

happening is nobody will motivate to get

off their couch to go to a show unless

somebody tells them that it’s already

good right where’s Bennett right and in

an Austin people said to get out of the

house okay it’s it’s warmer there you

know I mean if you’re in New York if

you’re in Chicago full Dolf you know

Boston you name any of those all the

major cities you know in the north right

even Seattle words freedom Rana that guy

can’t leave the gym I Jimi Hendrix had

to go to freedom Britain to make it

right right one of the best musicians

out of Seattle had to leave the country

right did Ollie get to have them to have

the people in Europe say oh dude we’ll

check you out and then he was a god that

he was amazing right people saw him the

guy from the moon was like he saw him

plays like they don’t stop playing I’m

like he’s that good and then he did not

break in Seattle because in America in

America getting off no breaks out and

it’s raining it’s cold or the fuck they

they don’t go out right there music or

not in America nobody gives a shit about

anybody we are we just don’t give a shit

unless you’re celebrity with love my

specialty unless you’ve already been

told you’re you’re you’re American

royalty which is celebrity we got rid of

a king system by leaving we have to we

still need a royal family for some

reason so we prop up uh celebrities but

I’m not even just seeing live shows

which I understand there’s a physical

pain in the ass even in America we don’t

even think about this if you’re an

American or a Canadian right now think

about this when was the last time you

even bothered to check out something new

on a free streaming site was last time

you went to last out of FM or Spotify or

anything and said or myspace which is a

free streaming site now right

and actually said even if somebody says

hey man check this out did you actually

get off your lazy pissed-off ass and

check out we don’t do it you like this

fuck dude I got fucking an American Idol

watch or I gotta eat this fucking greasy

hamburger right now he goes I was going

to say that’s a great segue he goes back

to comfort food right people move back

to their comfort where they’re

comfortable exactly and they don’t like

to go out and f-ck exactly like I don’t

want to hear new music because I’ve

already heard Nicki Minaj song on the

radio a hundred times and that’s good

enough for me I’ll get Nicki Minaj I

don’t care if my best friend what

respect says dude you need to check out

this band I don’t feel like clicking

just think about this how many times is

somebody recommended you just a like a

Facebook page I’ll have to just click

the word like and you actually throw in

a tantrum about it think about this I

know we’ve all done it and I know you’ve

done it just think about what a

douchebag you are right now and I’m

sorry we all are just complete pricks

and that’s just who we are culturally

and I’m not saying that yeah I’ll talk

down to us that’s just who we are and we

need to understand we are we are selfish

asshole pricks and that is us as America

I don’t give a shit about you you don’t

give a shit about me we are douchebags

and we celebrate the fact that we don’t

give a fucking shit well I know we don’t

eventually people come to become bubble

to the top and become the royalty but

man we love the lynchin ah there’s

nothing better than marriages to be like

oh wow we used to like you tiger why why

did you bubble to talk about me we’re

supposed to be an equal footing but that

whole bubble to the tops goes back to

the original conversation is a complete

illusion and why from a label

perspective artists get paid in that

attention that has monetary value so if

you’re making 40 grand a year for doing

all that work you’re getting late now

everybody else nobody knows about it

doesn’t give a shit about but nobody

bubbles to the top everyone there’s a

huge amount of money and effort to force

somebody into the attention of the

American public because it is a

closed-off wall an American mind is a

closed alcohol and the American flag

should say fuck you on

so let me sex all segue into every year

the the CEO president of the Recording

Academy comes out and he lectures

enjoyment he lectures he is not used

lectures you on both the pre telecast

and the telecast and what he said is

it’s very interesting because it’s kind

of an interesting segue is that you know

this is the first time I’ve ever heard

usually it’s like oh don’t steal don’t

go on don’t you know don’t use

technology you know support your artists

behind their sleep this is the first

time it’s like hey you know we all know

that we need fans we need our artists

and we need technology all of us need to

work together to figure out a way

because people that do work on this

music right need to get paid and I’m all

for that right corner you know the key

here is is the people that are actually

involved and hopefully you know with

with hopefully don’t destroy a Spotify

model hopefully you know things can

become better you know we’re you know

even this is a youtube concept where you

have the okay goes where somebody does

put some creative art out there and I

wasn’t saying that new okay go free game

video is amazing if you haven’t seen it

they take a friggin Chevy car they got

sponsored I get sponsors Chevy you know

a to music companies in his crash

whatever and they actually did this

really cool thing when they drive a car

and do a version of their song by biking

the car driving on an obstacle course

it’s but that’s the kind of stuff where

it’s you know luckily oh okay go has

very much the marketing PR like those

guys are marketing geniuses they don’t

need to hire people to go ahead and do

this for them but most artists out there

require Ages booking agents PR folks

marketing folks they need to have that

in order to break through you know

basically the yawn that is the

collective consciousness of Americans

and your stuff right so

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