Paul Conroy, who was president of Virgin Records for 10 years and the man who signed the Spice Girls, will tell top executives at a major event in Scotland this week that it is their own fault CD sales are dropping.
Because the music industry is not producing good music anymore and most of the current artists are all sugary and not original, people might also get annoyed by the easy money of the industry:
'There are too few people in the industry who are music people,' he told the Sunday Herald before the conference. 'The big companies are big corporate organisations run by lawyers and accountants. CD sales are dropping not because of internet piracy but because there is not enough good music being put out.' |
He believes British music is not selling as well in America because young acts 'don't have the work ethic' of established stars such as Rod Stewart and Elton John. But he denied any suggestion that the Spice Girls began the trend towards manufactured pop, which he believes is too dominant in today's music.
'Signing the Spice Girls to Virgin was one of the proudest moments of my career,' he said. 'They were fantastic performers, worked very hard and had great songs.' But Conroy isn't too pessimistic about the future. 'There is a lot of energy about just now, which will come out in records on smaller labels,' he said. 'What we need now is a return to the punk ethos.'
I think it's true, many songs use the same samples and sounds and are far from original. Music has been converted from art, to easy money for the big companies, and that's a shame. Read the entire story here.
Source: SundayHerald.com
