I go to a lot of gigs and notice the plethora of Tribute acts that are now touring. Does this mean that there aren't many decent new acts or that older music really is better?
shareThe older music is simply better and always will be because we didn't have shows like American Idol to sell the acts back in the day unlike today's bubblegum music.. Look at "El Monstero".. The Pink Floyd tribute band has been touring for like EVER or The BEATLES Tribute acts like "1964"
shareOr do us older folk have difficulty letting go?
shareOn average people stop exploring new music when they hit 30. So each generation has their own idols. When your generaiton dies so does the interest in these tribute acts. There will be other tribute acts performing the hits of different singers.
shareNo, it means your particular gig network is arepresentative.
shareUnfortunately, your typo affects your point. I’m sorry, I couldn’t work it out.
sharearepreresentative, as in not representative.
shareApologies, I Googled 'arepreresentative' and got nothing, hence my confusion.
I’ve been to over a thousand gigs in my life and worked in the music industry for many years. All I’m saying is that there’s an awful lot of Tribute Acts going around at the moment.
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sharePeople prefer the safety of the same old thing, and this phenomenon extends to film as well. Plenty of original content, but they won't bother to dig in and take that modest risk of not finding said content enjoyable or compelling.
share“People prefer the safety of the same old thing”
Like an old pair of slippers, lol.
Maybe younger people are afraid to go out to a concert and it's old farts going to see covers of old familiar music?
I mean, if you're okay with getting a burger delivered to your door - you might not have the juice to travel outside much.
But that Taylor Swift person seems to have no problem selling out places.
Concert tickets are getting ridiculously expensive nowadays.
shareYet people buy from places like SkipTheDishes with their mark ups. Go figure.
shareI was thinking of taking my nine year old daughter to see Taylor Swift, but a ticket in the next town away from the stadium where you’d have to use a high powered telescope to see a speck on the stage was about £800 a go, so I took her to the cinema to see the Eras concert film instead, lol.
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Nostalgia sells.
It's a similar and related phenomenon to what's happening in cinemas.
There's plenty of other stuff going on (both in music and film). But the pathway from small venues to larger venues for acts such as, I dunno, The Last Dinner Party or Personal Trainer or any number of other (badly-named) indie acts is a bit broken because mainstream audiences have become incredibly conservative and would prefer to watch someone pretending to be Andy Bell from Erasure and reminding them of their more carefree youth than actually take a punt on any potentially new experiences. But it is out there.
Why has this happened to popular culture? Ticket prices is a big factor. Technological changes is another. Over-commercialisation of everything and a lack of government funding for the arts is a third.
But, no, it's not because older music is better or there's a dearth of decent new acts. It's just the socio-economics of the twenty-first century entertainment industry at work.
I find a lot of new acts don’t seem to tour as much either. Perhaps their style of music doesn’t lend itself to the live experience?
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Yeah. Maybe. I also think the economics of touring is just tougher for smaller acts now. Even if you're the traditional four piece guitar band . It's a harder business these days.
I mean, I've spoken to ex-members of reasonably popular 90s indie bands and they barely broke even from touring even back then. That's why so many of them come back. It's easier to make the money they should've made in the first place on the nostalgia circuit.
And it's harder for new acts now for all sorts of reasons.
I wonder if live music will exist the way it does now once the old guard have gone?
shareThe line for the decline of music quality is directly inverted with the rise line of computers making music production easier and faster.
More access, less real talent.
Autotune, home daw, cheap gear, easy sampling, digital distribution, and the internet saying anyone can be a star.
Production is easier and quicker, and this is good (and also tech has allowed for more varied sounds) but most low effort artists get nowhere. There's tons of high quality modern music about.
shareIt doesn’t lend itself to the live experience.
shareI would like to say it doesn't affect live, but there is tons used in shows. from Autotune, recorded tracks with "Ducking" so it SEEMS like they are singing at the mic, and backing tracks.
Even at smaller levels, i have a buddy in an active live dance band playing to MP3s with click track and sometimes backing musical tracks. it's everywhere, unseen
Too much automation removes the live element.
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