Musical talent, where are you?

By Value hunter on Nov 14, 2009 | In In real life, Wondering

I've listened to the debates all over the news, radio and TV this week over the Y factor and the votes. I have heard a few different arguments about what was thought to be the reasons for it.

Tonight, as I post, I have on my Live Aid dvd, the original one from 1985.
Already after just four artists, we have had an angry Bob Geldof, a bouncing status quo and a youthful Paul Weller belting out his own hits with the style council.
It occured to me, that back then we had huge talent around, who made their money by selling records, if the records were not up to it, they made little money.
The artist was king, big business courted them, gave them a six figure record contract and the artist made their own albums and put them out to the public. If the public were lucky and the album was good enough, then maybe one or two successful singles came from each album, regardless, the promotion was relatively non existant, bar a guest appearance on swapshop or the like.

Would any of those artists I watched growing up through the 70s and 80s, have put up with such interference from record companies and big business? I doubt it!

In today's world, big business no longer needs the artist, they could put a tin of carrots on stage, as long as the promotion and image caught the public mood, the tin of carrots will make them big profits.
This is destroying creativity, which is why the more I think about it, the more I realise just how lucky my generation has been to have such varied styles and great artists coming through, the likes of which I'll never ever see again.
The question is, will the young people of today ever see it either? Or has musical talent gone forever? :no: