What is the greatest cause of the destruction of the music industry today?

Question

P2P file sharing or MTV making urban and hiphop music overly mainstream?

Answer 1

The Industry of Music will not, is not, can not destruct. It's an industry it will fluctuate and adjust to the market.
If you don't like it don't buy it! If you do, then pay the price and deal with the marketing aspect.
Now, actual Music itself, has been pushed out of the Industry to a large degree but if you're looking for Real Music then you need to avoid the Industry and find live venues and support the artists that you like.

Answer 2

MTV doesn't play music or support it so MTV has nothing to do with the destruction and neither does p2p cause people wouldn't need p2p if music artist's would just put something good out for a change

Answer 3

No, I'd say it's the music industry funding formula written bullshit, and that the mainstream moved into a younger demographic. It started way back when, but really came to a head with the boybands in the early nineties, and hasn't abated much since. The music industry base the music that they create on sex and style. Look at the pussycat dolls. a handful of aging sluts with less talent than collagen and sillicon, and the world's current music sensation.

Yougsters have to be pretty bright to see beyond the flash and glamour to anything that constitutes real musical talent, and because it doesn't make money, it's marginalised to the point of non existence.

Answer 4

well, being the kind of person i am, i don't see the music industries destruction. Music has been a phacet of culture and society for thousands of years. I agree that with the globalization of pretty much everything that mainstream music has fallen in a sense, it doesn't mean that music itself will become extinct, just different. every person has a sense of what they enjoy in particular with music stemming from childhood and adult situations, tastes, culture, ect. The greatest cause of the destruction of the music industy today is when people think that the music industry is in stages of destruction.

Answer 5

I pick C. People liking crappy music. But seriously I think it's the total commercialization of music which continues to kill it slowly like a cancer. Everybody has to make a living but diamond studded teeth is just unnecessary. When an artist writes solely for the purpose of appealing to the market, and not from his heart, like how a politician panders to his constituents, that when music dies.

Answer 6

Electra, Atlantic, Capital, Epic, Def American, etc. mainstream recordsing studios who force the bands to play cr@p that polls tell them is "popular". Yes p2p is bad but the cassette tape could record long before that.

Answer 7

The greatest cause of the destruction of the music industry is the music industry itself, as they seem not willing or able to adapt to world wide digital distribution. You don't need them anymore, just like you don't need wooden cars.

Answer 8

The parents of the kids who have no taste in music and are so weak minded that they are conviced that by letting there kids listen to music that is on a comercial is going to make their kids think that they're cool... so MTV diffinetly has something to do with it..

Answer 9

Neither.Its greed and insulting their audiences by suing 12 year old girls for P2P filesharing.

Answer 10

Grunge and Gangsta signaled the death of music.

Everything that followed the onset of those two phenomena is a showcase for the detrimental effects that they had upon music.