Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Roger Waters Concerned About Music Industry : ' It’s like we will end up in a world populated entirely by Simon Cowell and his awful boy bands.'

Newsweek interviews Roger Waters:
We could rattle on about that for days. I am very concerned about the music industry. This idea [of] Spotify and Pandora and that music should be free—I believe in intellectual copyright and that these things have value. There is an attempt to take music away from musicians and to give it to advertisers. Music is available to all people around the world, but it actually now belongs to Colonel Sanders or Volkswagen. You will find that, slowly but surely, people won’t be making music. It’s like we will end up in a world populated entirely by Simon Cowell and his awful boy bands.
A scary thought as we get closer to Halloween.