Music Industry Staggers While Film Industry Blooms

GLX writes "The LA Times is running an article that explores the idea that while piracy has been the (supposed) bane of the music industry, it has yet to be felt in the video industry..." "Yet to be felt" might be too strong, but DVD sales are booming, and don't seem to be much crimped by illegal copying.

Warning

[Slashdot's Attorney]

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Re:Ummmm....Price?

[mbbac]

Where can I get a DVD with 65 minutes of Britney Spears sucking?!? Dammit, man! Provide a link!

Re:Ummmm....Price?

[TheGreenLantern]

The problem is, many more people out there (read: teenage girls) would rather have the Britney Spears CD than the 8th "Special Edition" of Evil Dead. Even with the Necronomicon cover.

If Sam Raimi was a teen heart-throb, you'd better believe you'd be paying over $20 for that DVD.

Re:Ummmm....Price?

[Anonymous Coward]

Brittany can suck for 65 minutes? COOOOOOOL! where do I find her?

Re:Ummmm....Price?

[killmenow]

So, buying the soundtrack on its own, without the movie or special features only knocks $2 off the price.

That made me think: Perhaps the problem is the sheer arrogance of the music industry. They think that of all the content on a $16 DVD, the music contributes 87.5% of the value! The actual movie, extras, etc. are relatively unimportant at only 12.5% of the value...Shit! I get it now! The only reason we watch movies is FOR THE MUSIC!!!

Two Words

[st0rmshad0w]

There are only two words that need to be said to explain why the music industry is tanking (if it is indeed, which I doubt):

American Idol

McMusic

[mrseth]

I recently joined a gym that constantly plays what I am guessing is currently popular music (or perhaps what the RIAA would like to ram down our throats). If this is the case, then I would say they're suffering because the music plainly sucks. It all sounds the same, the videos look the same and there is hardly a distinction to be made between songs. It is what I call McMusic. It generally consists of a constant thumping synthesized base drum and not much else in the way of instrumentation and the lyrics are never about anything more imaginitive than about who she wants to fuck or who has fucked her and dumped her or some other relationship psychodrama. On some "songs" they sample other songs that weren't even good when they were popular. I would be happy to NEVER hear "Jack and Diane" again but some idiot thought it would be a great idea to sample the fist few chords and make a sappy, crappy, syrupy love song out of it. Then there's another idiot that ripped off the theme for "The Young and the Restless" that is pure torture to listen to. Perhaps the worst of all though is the one where they've taken the main theme from Pachelbel's Cannon in D minor and put another set of sappy lyrics to it. I mean, am I the only one who thinks Brittany Spears' voice sounds a lot like an infant crying? It's awful. What happened to real music that is interesting to listen to? Where thought and inventiveness of the music can take the listener to places they've not been yet? I can only name a few recent bands that are entertaining to listen to. I am hard pressed to name any that I think are truly musical pioneers. Probably anyone who is doing great things musically either doesn't look like a model and can't dance like N'Sync so the music industry doesn't want them.