Unsound Video Analysis

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The article and video regarding musicians in the music industry today really spoke to me and opened my eyes to the reality of how difficult it is for musicians to make money in today's world. Although I personally do not have any experience with music or playing any type of instrument other then my choir days as a kid I still had a pretty strong opinion on how much people today in the music industry have to struggle and/or sacrifice. Whether it exists mainstream pop starts or underground unknown musicians in everyday society. Some one like me with no background or personal struggle with actually creating music from scratch may think as I did. As in first assume that if an artist creates music of their own that they would be paid fairly. Quite …show more content…
Although paying what artists deserve for the art they create seems like the right and fair thing to do watching the video just showed how unfair and incredibly difficult it really is because of the change in the industry itself, but the internet advances that give ways to rescue efforts music for free. I do feel that another reason as to why I feel really strong about this topic is because I know someone who is trying to get into the rap/hip hop industry and although he is very talented it is difficult in someways to actually make money for himself and his family through just music so he has to work a job that has nothing to do with his passion. The unsound video from vimeo.com is what really intrigued me it really gave me a different view as to downloading and/or streaming music off the internet. Within the video I feel the overall idea of what each person was talking about was how Internet and streaming as in not having to buy artists music is destroying the music industry which is sad, but very true. There was a quote shown in the video that really stood out to me that was from the …show more content…
I decided to research why she did that and I completely agree with her choice I found it to be extremely smart of her to do for herself as an artist. I think her music is great and her choice to do that made me respect her as an artist even more. Her standing up was a good career move because she in a way demanded and decided to say that she is an artist and deserves to be paid for her work and not allow people to just take her music and listen to it for nothing. She gave a voice to that problems saying artists should value themselves and their work. That chart from the article showed how little an artists makes from Spotify which shocked me. For an artists to only make a few cents for certain amounts of plays a month is ridiculous. Especially Spotify because unlike other systems in which to receive music Spotify does not have any settings or packages that make the people who want to use their site pay ahead of time to be able to even listen to the music they have. I immediately was reminded of Lady gaga when reading this. Although in that short clip we watched in class she never talked about no making her fair cut of money she talked about how being in today's music industry made her feel like her creativity was left in on the back burner and that she was just a money machine for others. Which makes complete sense because in a