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There's a time for superficiality.
That's why escapism is the true American pastime.
Many of us get into the habit of escaping it all...all the time.
I can't say I blame us.
That's why it's so easy for most people to believe that America is the greatest place to live in the world, without even knowing what its like to live somewhere else.
We're raised to believe in ENTERTAINMENT.
I don't speak from a pedestal, for I too am a supporter and believer in the importance of entertainment, AKA escapism.
This is because I am an artist, art is an escape and provides entertainment for the artist as well as the art fanatic.
What we forget is that as long as there are artists, there will be entertainment, regardless of corporate involvement.
The misnomer we are taught is that in America, we have the best celebrities, the best athletes, the most money, and most importantly the best COMPANIES, and an even bigger lie is that the companies are responsible for the art, and without them we would be doomed to live our lives without our great escape.
Because of this emphasis on entertainment and escapism being dependent on large companies, we are willing to sacrifice our hard-earned paychecks to the corporate demigods who grossly overpay corrupt athletes, musicians and artists with less talent than the average person who supports them, and generally people who have not the capability to work for our affection.
Yet we keep giving and giving and giving them this affection, because we credit them for our ability to escape.
However, as previously stated, this is a misnomer.
I have witnessed art, spray-painted on freeway overpasses, blaring out of a 50 dollar amplifier, echoing out from the porch of a run-down bungalow, yielding no monetary gain, demanding no respect, inflating no ego.
Art more beautiful than any suit and tie yuppie could imagine.
The very idea that millions of dollars should be the inspiration for art is a sacrilege, a scam.
Art and business contradict each other, which is why the music industry can only steal ideas, not produce them. The only art that is performed by the industry, is the art of mass deception, the art of brainwash, and the art of stealing ideas and claiming them as their own.
The nature of the corporation is monetary gain as a priority.
That is why they take new, rebellious ideas that begin as chaos, and structure them to create, not a work of art, but a product, a replica, the most expensive cheap knock-off money can buy.
You can see it on billboards, you can hear it in mainstream music...art without the soul of an artist.
A replica can never be as good as the original, so they also take control of the distribution.
They buy up all the radio time until no true independent artists have a chance of being heard by mainstream ears. It minimizes competition, because the true artist in nature loves his or her work more than money, and therefore cannot be bought, and the industry certainly cannot have that. No, sirree, because even just a 1% drop in the pie chart is unacceptable.
The industry is greed and greed is the industry, they are inseparable.
They use dirty tricks, like promising independent artists a chance to make a living doing what they love, then once they own that artist, they put em on the shelf, keep them out of the way, so as not to draw attention and money from the replicas that they so proudly create.
A&R reps scatter about the body of art like parasites, looking to destroy the artist from within.
However, since a corporate entity lacks the capability to grasp the true meaning and power of art, they fail to realize that art will always outlive them. The machine will eventually fall, and the artist will flourish, because true art is immortal.
We are now a decade into what we still refer to as the "New Millennium," and the mediocrity of the industry from the past ten years has lead to this point.
The artist is quickly becoming the industry's worst nightmare, whether they admit it or not.
The artist now has the ability to do everything we once relied on the industry to do for us.
In the 1950's we had to have studios and experts that worked only for a fee in order to capture music and immortalize art.
60 years later, an impoverished kid can do it all in his or her room.
And as time goes on, we'll keep getting better at it, and the industry will try to devise new ways of tricking us into believing that we need them, but we are all beginning to realize that we need SHIT from them. They may have the money to cast the illusion that we have lost, but don't believe them.
Art lives on while corporations fall, this will never change, we will never lose. Rock n' roll music came from an impoverished black man in the bayou, in the racist 1930's. No one knew his name while he walked the earth, but when his art was found he changed music forever, and that's something that no tyrannical corporation can EVER take away.
Keep creating your own art, keep spreading spreading , keep supporting local music and local artists of every kind.
D.I.Y. forever.
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