x-l-ent! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Big Loda . Krhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 12:42 Subject: [313] Re: The Great White blah...... Regarding Business
> This entire thread has been great, but I'm really sick of businesspeople > being stereotyped as greedy, white, racist, homophobic, powermongers > intent on oppressing all minorities. > > People start businesses for one reason - to make money. There's a lot of > other smaller reasons to start a business; doing something you love, being > your own boss, ect. But the bottom line is that you start a business to > make money. > > To record execs, artists are no different than toasters and blenders. They > don't care if you're black, white, hispanic, asian, ect. They don't care > if you're male or female. They don't care about your plight trying to make > it in the world. Your sob story means nothing. They care wether you can > sell records and make them money. > > It is not the businessman's fault that techno does not sell very well. Nor > is it his duty to make it sell well. Businessmen have no obligation to any > market (scene) other than to provide a wanted product/service and to > provide that product/service in an ethical way. > > In the same way, artists have no obligation to work with businessmen or > give in to the demands of businessmen. If you don't like how the game is > played, start your own game. Go it alone and see how well you'll do. It's > easier now than ever to become successful without utilizing the > traditional systems in place. > > Put yourself in the businessman's shoes. If you have one million dollars > to develop a product (artist) and you have two choices, one being an > almost sure money-maker, and one being a real long shot, which do you > choose? You go with the money-maker every time. If you don't, your > business does not survive. > > Imagine 430-West being presented with the option of putting out a Random > Noise Generation album, or an The Impaler album. Which one do you think > they're gonna choose? The money-maker. Sure, The Impaler is a nice guy. > He's had it rough in the music scene. Nobody has given him much of a > chance. His music is great (heh, lets pretend here). But the bottom-line > is you don't invest your hard earned money on something that's probably > going to fail. That would just be stupid. > > Is the race card valid when applied to business? Sure, in some cases, but > not in the broad case of record industry. They only provide what will > sell. They have no obligation to do otherwise. If you're going to play the > race card, you have to attack the reasons why mainstream audiences would > rather buy whitebred pop than minority produced techno/house/whatever. > This might include attacking minority individuals that make the rest of > the race look bad (rappers with their 40s, guns, hoes, ect). Or maybe > attacking Europeans that claim (and may even believe) they brought > electronic music to the States. How about replacing affirmative action > with actual equality? Or taking on the people that could bring forth > quality schools in urban areas. I'm basically trying to show that the > problem is much larger than the record industry. It's wrong to expect > Virgin and Sony Records to mold the majority of people into what a handful > of people think music listeners should be like. It is simply not their > obligation to do so. > > You cannot blame record execs pushing what sells and then complain > yourself that you're not making money because you refuse to produce music > that sells. Anyone that makes techno can just as easily make trance if > they so choose. If you choose your integrity over money that's you're > choice. It's not the businessman's fault that the result of your choice > does not sell. > > I have the mindset of an ethical businessman. I don't care who you are or > what your story is. If I can make money off of you, I'll invest in > you/your product/your cause/whatever. Your value to me has nothing to do > with race, gender, or sexual preference. THAT'S equality, and it exists in > the business world. > > ===== > Krhn! - [Detroit Intelectronic Listowner ] > [aim : krhn3][Visual ID - http://facelink.com/Krhn ] > [Intelligent Electronic Music Discussion: ] > [http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/intelectronic ] > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball > http://sports.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
