alphabet_king
Vital 1st Team Regular
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...efuses-play-records-privileged-pop-stars.html
Discuss...?
(Looking forward to Buddha's inputs)
Discuss...?
(Looking forward to Buddha's inputs)
Smarter? Or more well off parents?One of the newer silly left wing ideas that if you are too well educated you really should not be allowed to make the working mans music or comedy. Sorry Queen and Monty Python etc.
Cerys has a good show too, but it's strength is that it plays a really wide diversity of music. So it's a bit ironic if she is choosing to act like a dictator and do her own bit of cleansing of the smarter musicians.
Either. The point is, absolutely anybody can make music (or comedy or art or anything). If you are determined to prejudice someone just because they have had a decent upbringing then it's a nonsense.Smarter? Or more well off parents?
Same seems to go for the acting profession. To his credit, posh boy Cumbrrbatch has been saying this.I listen to a lot of 6 Music and you do notice, when they interview the younger bands, that a lot of them sound awfully posh compared to their predecessors.
I suspect the problem is that it's no longer possible to spend time honing your art unless you've got independent means to do so. Just think how many of the great bands of the past bummed around on the dole or at art school for years before they got their break.
No-one's saying privileged kids can't make great music - Pink Floyd, Genesis and Queen spring to mind - and certainly not that they should be banned (although I'd make an exception for Mumford and Sons there), but it does increasingly seem that other than the stage school crowd, you don't hear as many working class kids in the music business.
I suspect the same goes for a lot of the other arts as well.
Same seems to go for the acting profession.
Same seems to go for the acting profession. To his credit, posh boy Cumbrrbatch has been saying this.
There are some exceptions of course (Tom Hardy?) and the same goes for Oxbridge entrants, but the deck is stacked against the poor. I say this as someone who's had a relatively privileged upbringing. I'm happy for positive discrimination to give a chance to others to redress the imbalance.
The point is, do a large section of the public get to hear it in the first place?Music success is not about social class, it is everything to do with whether people want to listen/buy your music.