Did technology and lawyers kill the music industry?

I think music is just less "special" to people now. Everything is streamed and it doesn't really have the same uniqueness that it did. There is good music out there though.

Greed by the music labels killed the industry...........imo..............Lets promote this band and put them on tour because we can make the most money off them, even if there not that good.........We know the other band are very talented musicians and are a better band, but we don't believe the money we'll make, will be as profitable...........plus we have to pay these guys more money...........

There's a lot of GREAT music out there. A lot of it is live, never gets recorded. Even this bigger little town is a good example. There's a lot of great music outside the "industry". I get a lot of things from places like Bandcamp or YouTube. All stuff the mainstream music industry wouldn't engage.

I'm waiting to see what the next generation is going to listen to since tie 50-60-70-80s performers are going to be gone..... No talent to fall to. Auto tune and computer music took over.

I try to source my music from more independent labels and artists and listener supported stations.

Also culture... studies have suggested that modern hit music is at a 4th grade reading level or below...

Used to be above a 10th grade reading level...

And as some have pointed out, basically everything is a 4 cord song now...

Music companies just want money, so they just want the bare bone basics... they don't want someone to push music or the people like music used to do...

Computerization and videos did music in. So much of today's hit music is heavily computerized and dehumanized. And videos with half-naked women seem more important that the actual sound of many songs.

BUT if you rove around Youtube and other places you can still find music made by actual musicians.

It's the listening/subscribing, tasteless public sheeple that have killed the production of decent music. Just as its the dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers electorate that enables the deplorable state of politics.

Technology didn't really kill the music industry it actually enhanced the quality of the recordings. It's the culture of the time that makes or breaks the music

it is because there is
SO much of it, and it is SO easy to make, and heavily automated,
hig volume means low quality .

what music moves you, from any time?
I do a lot of jazz and old Soul,

I like some music that is made now but it's true it's hard to find [i]a lot of[/i] good music.

The music industry killed itself, their outright greed and profiteering is what killed it. There will always be talented musicians and good songwriters as there always has been but there hasn't always been a "Music Industry" and they're what needs to go now.

Well said, agree.

No the music industry has just evolved and changed but many people want it to stay in the past

I understand that even back in the day maybe 4 out of 5 songs played on the radio was yucky. Yet tons of great music was produced in the last half of the twentieth century. After that... not so good.

As in recording media or actual music? Will music by such composers as Gershwin, Porter, etc., Be popular 100 years from now?

Technology, no question, and I say this not only as a die-hard music fan but also a musician who records original music. I remember the day I brought home my CD burner in 1999. CDRs were still expensive, but I knew it was over. Who was going to pay $15 for a CD when it could be cloned for a buck? With file-sharing sites, that was another nail in the coffin.

I truly believe that the reason that there is less quality is twofold; that tech exists to make almost anyone a star, and that people now think that music is free. I have felt this at both the original performance as well as cover/tribute level.

Bad music killed it.

just listen to old music then. I don't listen to anything post 90s because there's enough of it