The scene is dead!!!!!
I see people on message boards using the term "scene" a lot still. I find it incredibly humorous. ANNOUNCEMENT: The "scene" you speak of is dead! It died several years ago when the mainstream turned to the underground music scene, as it does every ten years or so, and made those bands popular. I'm sorry to break this news to you. These bands are no longer playing VFW halls put on by LOCAL promoters, booking their own tours, trading shows with bands from other parts of the country and releasing music themselves. Its all packaged tours with big product sponsors, ticketmaster pre-sales, ads in national magazines, iTunes, merch in hot topic, myspace, facebook, and twitter pages, songs placed in MTV reality shows and in some instances; radio play. There's nothing wrong with all of that, because that's what it takes to get exposure and make a living playing music these days, but all of that commercialization means it is no longer a "scene". I've come to that realization, its time you do the same!I know there are still "scenes" out there, and as a product of the hardcore scene I have many great memories, so that makes me happy, but these music scenes are not the ones I'm reading about online.
Eron
posted by hawthorne heights at
2:22 PM
2 Comments:
Thank you! It's about time someone says that, and who better than a musician whose once small band has grown so much and became, so exposed to the world in the past several years. I never got why people don't understand that there is NO scene, anymore. Yes, you still always have small, underground bands and you're always going to have that, but none of these bands are going to stay underground very long, because with the society that we live in today and with America's shitty economy that we face these days musicians can not live off of doing everything by themselves, which is why everything is so commercialized these days. Yes, it's sad, but people need to realize that these small bands or young musicians need to grow up and make a living, just like the rest of us and if they're talented enough to do it, they're going to do everything in their will power to get exposure, which equals commercialism, which equals money. Sad as it is, the mainstream took over the scene and killed it.
Well... I completely agree with you, Eron. Personally, I thought the "SCENES" died when I was about... four... so that was that was 12 years ago. Some people are made to be musicians, like you guys, and some aren't... and I don't aim to hurt ANYONE's feelings... but I'm just trying to be honest. I'm honestly sorry if I offended ANYONE.
-Kendra-
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