Let it Be

I'd like to preface the following with an idea that I had.... or so I thought. You see, the plan was that I would come to you with a series of comments that I would promote as Constructive Cynicisms. "Sounds great", I thought to myself.  It's 2011 now, so I figured "someone has surely put these two words together before".   Being the very academic person that I am, I Googled the phrase and came up with the following URL address:  http://moogi-constructivecynicism.blogspot.com/

Yep.  Not only does the phrase exist, but this is the name of a person's blog on this very website. Surprise surprise. I know there may be some skeptics out there who would rather believe it seeped into my subconscious than it was an original thought - I am obligated to tell you I am fairly certain it did not.  It is, however, frustrating to be behind the curve, yet again :\  After having given credit to the closest author I could find, I will move on to the first of many Constructive Cynicisms (CCs):


Commercialization can/will ruin the creative artform. Whether paper, canvas, acoustic, electric, or digital.... If it's controlled by another person - it's suppressed. That is what commercialization does; it suffocates true originality by attaching business goals to creative means. One might argue that the artist is not affected by these forces, but I am arguing at the extreme end of a spectrum (since this is the best way to show what we are heading towards).  Two words: Lady Gaga


Briefly to skeptics of this CC: the digital age of music has come. Yes, it has indeed come, and it does allow artists to more easily get their music to end users.  This very ease-of-access is what has allowed the market to be flooded with more music, making it an issue of quantity over quality.  The average person also prefers tracks to EPs to albums (quality versus quantity?  NO).  Simply put: the digital age of music has made it easy for the artist to cop out on producing an entire album's worth of quality music like we ALL know the greats were able to do.... time and time again!!!  


Calls to action: Industry - Let it Be. Artists - please crank up the efforts, and do it like your predecessors.