Yikes. He still seems to be clinging to the pop "artist" sense-of-entitlement: that if they make a single popular recording, they deserve a lifetime of munching caviar and swilling 2000 Margaux.
This line is particularly ridiculous:
"Genius, forced to figure out ways to tour without having to incur excess baggage costs."
A precious genius, slumming it by actually *performing*? That would put the pop-genius down at the level of, you know, every professional orchestral musician or vocalist. We certainly can't have that, because then they may start to supplement performance income with... *shudder*....teaching!
And this line:
"Virtuosos, giving up music because they refuse to take the option of product placement or naked dancers in their videos."
Yeah, without that MTV video of herself drinking Coke and dancing with strippers, Cynthia Phelps certainly would never have become Principle Violist at the Philharmonic.
I had no idea there was a decline of music, let alone a decline that is the innernets fault.
Matt
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