In the midst of writing the show rockone.fr Tuesday night, I take a little time to throw some words Quit Day on MySpace, launched by some bloggers I do not know much about the impact webesque, already difficult to know whether the case is serious or not.
The post is interested in: http://www.newmusicstrategies.com/2010/10/23/the-time-has-come-its-quit-myspace-day/
The post is interested in: http://www.newmusicstrategies.com/2010/10/23/the-time-has-come-its-quit-myspace-day/
What motivates me to babble on about noon today, this is not the defense of MySpace (it would be hypocritical on my part) is the representation of web artists and their music ... especially when you're a little boy who aspires to become as large as possible. By what means? I have been very long among the hardest to convince about the utility of Myspace. I even tried myownspace, which offered the same services with ten times more mess in the controls but ten times less control of intellectual property. Then I cracked myself join with suspicion then rassurage staff: responsible, like a pal said: you can always stick a leaflet against your ear, to hear nothing. Take it as a tool to be able to listen very quickly and very simply the music that is crap to deal with. Followed a lengthy period of cohabitation serene, up to the creation of several myspace, as you may know, for all my projects. In the end, I was in a frenzy, and I do not regret having put my email address everywhere to have a page for each of my delusions.
Well, once my psychoanalysis complete, big question: myspace, we did what, now that the platforms have multiplied and listening that is less in a socio-cultural slavery from Rupert Murdoch, owner sheaf of MySpace and Fox News (which always confuses Iraq and Starship Troopers )? Commentary visible on the blog I mentioned: "MySpace is for those who still believe in the 80's!". Beuarh is not really the problem. The real problem that has always been suspicious that contract in which we never really know where share his music when it is available on myspace. And pulling the strings. Apart from that, by cheating a little can be achieved pages really nice and synthesize all essential information of a group with one click (for those like me who mismanage the html or not at all time to devote to creating a website worthy). And anyway, it was not myspace, it would have been something else and so rotten, when required.
Now myspace has become a real waste bin version 2.0 to pub pervasive looting the slightest desire aesthetic. It is clear that the bullet in the foot, and more and more artists around me flee this shit for purely practices, while the boycott call was present for years, including relayed by the group L'Enfance Rouge with whom I had an interesting discussion on this.
result, leave myspace, why not, but to where? Noomiz? Fun, fast, but it looks like all our fonts Escape on a Windows 95 and the relative antimaniabilité the trick. Twitter? There is everything and nothing in there, it's still a mini-blog service nice but overrated. Reverbnation? Clutter. Bandcamp? Great to listen and let the music speak (no other gadget with a photo and a player). But if we want to show a video, a piece of text, a newspaper clipping, a crappy, a link? After I see it, and we start all over again because the problem will always remain the same: a global race to the internet presence with a backdrop few scruples and ethical practices.
