Commercialism and the Music Industry

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This paper explores how entertainers today are more interested in money and their moment in the spotlight of fame and fortune than in being aware of their sense of what music as an art form really is. It looks at how the entertainer's social status and financial value have absolutely no correlation to their abilities as a musician or their talents. It examines how this commercialism has ruined music as an art form and turned it into a business.

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"Where did the creativity go to? Music has the power to move people in unexplainable ways. It gives them the power to go deep inside themselves, to touch emotions which otherwise would be unattainable. It has the power to spark movements and revolution. Listening to music, watching live music, or even making music with other people has the power to lift one's spirits onto another level and gives people the sense that they are not alone. With music one can explore all possibilities; it can help us to reach ulterior ways of understanding the world. Lyrics and more importantly image are not the only way music exists."

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