Some random venting, after a lousy day........
I have to confess: While I can emotionally hate the marketing strategy behind the band Eisblume, I must admit that their girl can really sing... contrary to some other bands who also aim at the growing market of feeble Emos.
One reason more to play "Keine Amnestie für MTV" (No amnesty for MTV - yeah, german can be simple, but we usually don't want to) right after listening to the new Subway To Sally CD (which has a nice duet with her). The whole music marketing stuff and the big labels actually somehow ruin the music in my eyes. It all gets fleeting in their hands, despite some stuff actually being by itself better than the bulk of the music these companies produce. In the past, such a band would have spent some years with being known only to few fans and experts, and growing slowly, with the early albums one day becoming classics. Today, the band gets marketed in such a replaceable way, that they will be forgotten and replaced by the next hype in a few months.
In the past, you did not get the band pressed into your ears by the unified media complex. You listened to their songs in a small club or saw them on one of the many little or large festivals. Maybe they had been supporting act for a more famous act (that way, I learned about Joint Venture or Regicide). You developed sympathy first, liked them even when the singer was so drunk on stage, that the lead guitarist had to fill a 15 minute gap with a solo, because the singer got lost in the WC. If you remembered the band after your head cleared up, you bought their CD.
Today, you learn to hate the band before you had even a chance to develop any sympathy or admiration. You see so much nonsense of the band and so little of their music, that you have no chance to not get sick of them. You have to listen to 10 second ring tone snippets, which are all sounding alike - and are ugly. And the music has to be written to be suitable as ring tone, which makes it all sound like children tunes.
It is really annoying, how little the music industry is actually about music.