Friday, March 11, 2016
Apple Records
The modern music debacle is dwindling. As America realizes how much they have been duped by wireless communications, former values again begin to emerge. Take for instance American popular music. It dawned on me last evening, while I was watching the black and white film "Untamed Youth" how heinous American popular music has become for one simple reason. No longer does it satisfy the one need previous Americans desired. America was built on the sweat of the worker. Americans labored for a living, and it was good. When they desired a release from captivity, they danced. (I sound like Ren MacCormack.) Music provided a way for the population to express their romantic biological desires. It was a vehicle for physical movement in contrast to the toiling of work. It was freedom or exoneration from labor. Millennials have no idea what labor is, because they are spoiled by their devices. They are stunted by their own devices. I'm not sure it's their fault, but providing them sanctuary from the history of reality in America is not an option. Grow up. The movement of courtship and love has been lost in the pornography of the internet. America no longer understand what popular music was. They only understand what is has become, and that is a shadow of its former self. With this shadow has come the prince of darkness. When American popular music was ripe, America thrived upon it. It unified and bonded the nation with its universal message. After watching only a few minutes of "Untamed Youth," it was blatantly obvious why America popular music is lacking today. It is a complete and utter disservice that Apple has become the record company of the world. What prior experience has Apple had to merit distributing the world's music? It's not just about being a retailer, something about which Apple is a novice. Developing the iTunes store was novel, and like their iPhone at first it is a great convenient entertainment. When the novelty wears off and one realizes they would like to keep their music forever in the best recorded format ever developed, the MP3 fails. Contrarily the MP3 has flourished for its merits, which incidentally were based upon German-engineered minidisc compression algorithm. Still today I have five minidisc recorders, and I use them. The files are small enough to be up or downloaded via the internet and a personal computer. That's it. This little tidbit of knowledge is how Napster singlehandedly destroyed the recording industry. Now that tried and true veteran music makers have been put our of work, Apple and other internet providers have stepped up to distribute out music. Is this a good thing? After watching only a few minutes of "Untamed Youth," I realized the answer is an unequivocal, "No!" It has created a corporate monopoly lumping in America's music with tabloid journalism and TV. American Popular Music does not deserve this disservice. It deserves wholehearted respect. The notion of internet nerds deciding what music is bought and sold is ludicrous. Buying music which formerly served a deep humane service via the internet is a mockery. Simply put it lessens the capability of music by an exponential rate. Music has only a small percentage of its power, because it has been reduced to a minuscule stream of digits flowing over an optical pipe. Once music was an analog river flowing through magnets and paper. The response humans can have is almost nonexistent via the internet, except for propaganda purposes. Music has been neutered.