Commenting on Monday’s post, Micke gave me the great tip for today’s post.
The other week, I wrote about Josh Freeze’s offer to buy limited editions of his new album “Since 1972″, including foot rubs and tailor made songs (thanks, Fredrik!). Well, now you can go even further :
Right now, Jersey Budd’s next album “Wonderland” is in production. And YOU can be the executive producer. Don’t like Budd’s stuff? Then just pick another band or artist, and put your money where their mouths are. Just visit Generation In-Charge’s new music industry home bandstocks.com and take charge of any music act you like – you can even give an artist as a present to someone!
On Bandstocks, anyone can first screen music acts and vote for the ones they like, then invest a sum (above ten quid) of your choice to get a stock in their forthcoming album. The stock enables you to follow production in real time, make decisions on the launching of the album, the touring that follows, and a share of all the profits.
I’ve written before about Generation In-Charge’s opportunities to control their darlings, like choosing Hillary Clinton’s campaign song, writing the lyrics to Sepultura’s new album and making the next video for Nine Inch Nails.
Generation In-Charge just took Controlling-your-darlings to a whole other level.
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A thought that has been nagging me is this: The music industry is looking for new ways to earn the money of the consumers. The producers at the end of the day are musicians that have a bit of expressionism in them. And most (or all) have started their careers on a small stage being very close to their consumers thus the step to offer the various engagement is not that far for the singers. Would this be possible in another industry that has the same problem?
If so, lets look at the news and ponder on the large daily papers that struggle with the same problem. Anyone anywhere can read the news for free. In the yerstermillenium you had to pay for news. It’s easy to forget that. The solution presented by Murdoch is that they will try to charge for news with micro payments. But as we have learned in this blog this is not possible at least not in the long run. So will we the same path for journalists, hire them for a day, get massage, get to work with them for a day, make them right about you?
Martin, interesting thoughts indeed. However, I don’t think journalists will be very interesting to hire since everybody can be a journalist. Everybody may not be a GOOD journalist, but journalism isn’t near of being an industry full of stars in the way the music industry is.
Because of that I think the way we look at journalism will undergo heavy reconstructions. So will the music business, but there you have the incentive of stardom. One artist may not reach as many as in the yestermillenium, but on the other side artists may have more fanatic fans in the new millenium. (Sorry for not going in too deep into the theories of mine behind all statements, but I’m at work and will have to stay very late if I’m not quite brief
Another thought of mine is that if artists invite their fans to participate in the production of music because of artistic purposes I think it’s really cool. If they do it because of capitalistic purposes I think it’s really dull and that they deserve to burn in hell
Martin,
I love your nagging thoughts. It makes really interesting food for creative thinking to view other industries through the music industry lens. And I thonk you could be on to something with journalism – after all, just like you remind us that most artists started out small, so did all writers and painters a few centuries ago – doing commercial work for rich individuals, like Da Vinci’s portraits and some of Shakespeare’s name-focused dramas…
Bigge,
It’s so great to have an idealist in the midst…
emvehå,
MD