Der legendäre Musiker und Produzent Quincy Jones kritisiert in einem Interview mit The National Electronic Dance Music.
Auf die Frage, was er von den aktuellen Talenten der Musikindustrie hält antwortete er:
Music has gone so far down lately because everyone is going after the money. People are making songs to sell all sorts of things such as tyres, clothes and alcohol. When you go after the money, God walks out of the room, trust me. I never went out after the fame and money. I was just doing what I loved and the money came. You gotta do what you love and really believe in it because that is your truth. I plan to stay like that.
Can you give examples of music that you feel is product-driven?
I don’t like techno at all. That’s just noise. I can try it because there is nothing to it but I just don’t think there is anything to learn from it. Now all these DJs are making more money than rock groups. They don’t even need bands anymore. People such as Skrillex and those guys get half a million to a million dollars a show all over the world from Las Vegas to Brazil. As a musician it is extremely frustrating. Because that’s just music to sell products.
Ist das die Frustration eines alten Mannes oder hat er den Nagel auf den Kopf getroffen, was denkt ihr?
Das ganze Interview gibt es hier. / via / Foto von XPRIZE Foundation (CC BY 2.0)
Was Quincy so produziert hat, ist schon auf einem anderen Level als das meiste EDM Zeugs à la Skrillex…ganz ohne Zweifel. Aber es gibt auch viel bessere audiovisuelle Kunst als „Keeping Up With The Kardashians“. Und es gibt auch viel besseres Essen als McDonalds…
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