My view is, the consumer decides what is a great song…to them! I mean, most of us feel that radio sucks, and that a lot of the songs radio plays, sucks. Yet those very songs win Grammys, sell lots, and get lots of attention, for the most part. How many sucky songs have won Grammys? I know, you say the Grammys suck. Well, I’m a Grammy voting member, and when I vote next time, most of you probably would not agree with my votes. And that’s cool, really, because that’s my whole point. Most of you have your own view of what is a ‘great song’, however, make no mistake, for every one of your ‘votes’ there are about 100,000 people who would say you’re crazy. That’s what it’s all about.

Let them put whatever songs they want to out there, and let the consumer decide, according to their taste, what is a ‘great song.’

One man’s trash is truly another man’s treasure. It happens in songwriting all the time.

Peace

Orlando Luckey – http://www.myspace.com/orlandoluckey

$20-$30 up front for an album, and I have heard nothing but good things about this company from the folks that directed me there.

1. I wouldn’t worry about iTunes ‘filling’
2. Ashlee Simpson

With that being said we should embrace unfiltered music because labels are going down and for good reason, a lot of the music industry has relied on the artlessness of teens and laughed all the way to the bank for a long time now. Kind of funny how that is playing out for them.

You’re absolutely right though, Dean. This is meaningless when it comes to the actual quality of music. Being on every free artist site and selling your crappy songs on iTunes won’t make you famous. Great songs will.”

Maybe next time you can take a moment to figure out what we’re actually talking about before you start telling us how we’re wrong.

Here’s an example:

“Wanting outlets and wanting outlets to have standards” isn’t necessarily conflicting.

However, wanting outlets THAT ALLOW ANYONE TO SUBMIT MUSIC (which, in case you haven’t figured it out yet, is what we’re talking about) and “wanting outlets to have standards” IS conflicting.

Let’s move on, please. Watching you spin like this is making me dizzy (and nauseous).

Are wanting outlets and wanting outlets to have standards conflicting ideals?

Dean: “Filling iTunes with unfiltered music is comparable to dumping raw sewage in our seas.”

CDBaby’s deal of getting artists onto iTunes has been working out fine, and yes, that’s one of the things I’m referring to with making the connections. There are also countless services that deal specifically with digital distribution. That’s another way.

The concern, and I think it’s a valid concern, is that artists think being on iTunes will make all their dreams come true. For those unsigned artists already on iTunes, they can say definitively that it will not.

Jalan thinks that KOAR hates the internet. As a websites that’s been around since 1999, I think that’s pretty ridiculous. It doesn’t benefit KOAR in any way to limit opportunity for any artist. KOAR has always called for artists to work hard and be great. “Shortcuts” like TuneCore give some artists the impression that this is easy. That all they need to do is take advantage of all the shortcuts and they will be famous. It doesn’t work like that, and it’s unfortunate when talented people sell themselves short by not working for it the right way.