Brave New World.

I heard about something very interesting today. Meet the Featured Artists Coalition. This is just starting its´action and is all-British right now (as far as I can tell, I do not know all the artists). But seriously, why has it taken this long for artists to fight for their rights? Of course they should have the rights of their own material, they have created it for god´s sake. I am really looking forward to the dat something similar happens at the US. The big record companies should be made think about their actions and how they treat their artists. Bands and artists publishing music on the Internet, straight to the listener are an increasing number. It is probably the best way nowadays. And if it´s free, it´s even better, but I totally understand those "pay 5 bucks or whatever you want to support us" campaigns when releasing new material too. They are trying to make a living of it after all. Anyway, this is extremely interesting.

And I just want to make sure no one gets me wrong. I like to support small, possibly indie labels that don´t have a huge promotional machinery helping them, but they all or most of their stuff themselves. Actually care about their artists and think music is the most important thing, not the money the sales bring. If I recall correctly this quote is by Chris Cornell: "Music driven by money deserves to fail."

I do watch Idols, but just for the fun of it. I cannot believe the people there are after the record deal with Sony BMG. I am willing to bet whoever the winner is, does not make original or revolutionary music, but stuff that gets a lot of air play but says nothing. I´d love the winner to say, "thanks, but no thanks, I do not want your deals". That would bring a great twist to the show. Until that happens, I just keep checking if there is even one or two people that can actually sing and wait for their first album to top the charts and sell ridiculously much. Because that is what is going to happen.

I have already gotten the things that really made my day strange yesterday out of my system elsewhere (in my own language, which I haven´t done for a while), so I am not repeating them here. I do repeat the fact that I will be sad if Poland loses the football Euro 2012. I believe they have some sort of deadline concerning the issue today and according to BBC they are close to settling things. It´s really good to hear that, because I´d be more than willing to make a visit to Poland during those games. I can only guess what kind of athmospere they´d create. But it might be too soon to say anything, so I´m just keeping my fingers crossed.

Until more, take care!

IWFT