There are those who believe ideas are sacred — that once they are manifested as products and entered into The Marketing Mythology Archives, they become canon.

Some day, a friend will turn to you and say:

“They remade Lord of the Rings?! Why? Why would they ruin such a good movie?”

In this case, they will mean investors who moved money around and released a copy of a movie that is a copy of a book, hoping to earn a profit. It doesn’t need to be taken seriously as a work of art. If you criticize it, you will have already missed the point.

As if a karaoke version will forever ruin the original.

Distribution does not equal Immortality.

Think of all these bad movie remakes as nothing more than cover songs.

They serve the same purpose: familiar name, simple material, safe investment. Replace the original inspired performance with sterile midi tracks, ignore the artist’s original intent, leave out anything tricky or high-brow, and repeat the chorus 3,000 times until the drunk people fall over.

Take it a step further… give the drunk people microphones, let them sing.

It happened to music, why not movies, too?

Behold: Movieoke!

To find out where the movie industry is headed, always look to the music industry. All art forms eventually devolve to sell beer.

Even my blog did.

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Pro Musician = Pro Wrestler?

Maybe the art of music was lost a hundred years ago and replaced with a form of entertainment called Pro Music.

Maybe we’ve just never admitted it or called it that.

Go to any rock concert, and on stage, you’ll see men dancing around in silly “bad guy” costumes. Exaggerated gestures, playing to the crowd, calculated encores. Just look at those people — how can they be serious?

Matches are prearranged by the promotion’s booking staff and contain choreographed content and scripted outcomes. [Source: Wikipedia]

How is that different from the three hit songs already calculated and paid for, the witty stage banter already rehearsed and repeated with the name of the current city inserted, and the already worn-out illusion of rebellion and danger?

It’s all carnival theatrics, not fine art.

Maybe Pro Musicians are Pro Wrestlers who happen to know a few chords. (Chris Jericho would have something to say about that.) What modern people call Wrestling has devolved from its original form, and Music has, too.

A key dramatic element of the business can be entrances of the wrestlers to the arena and ring. It is typical for a wrestler to get their biggest crowd reaction (or “pop”) for their ring entrance, rather than for anything they do in the wrestling match itself. [Source: Wikipedia]

One thing is certain: it’s impossible to succeed these days if you don’t put on a show. Music that is unaccompanied by visuals is obsolete.

Are you a Pro Musician? Maybe that’s the perfect title.

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…to make their music as noticeable as it is in these parody videos?

Imagine how much money is spent just to make one person listen to Creed’s latest boring album, or read one of their boring interviews.

Full Circle, Creed’s first album in eight years, came out on October 27, 2009. Stapp elaborated on the title, which is also the name of a track to appear on the album: “It really defines and articulates, melody-wise and lyrically, what’s happened with us.”

Creed going around in circles? Can’t argue with that…

I’ve never heard the original song that this video is mocking, but I’m sure it took a lot of time, energy, and money to write and record. I’m guessing Creed operates on a slightly higher budget than these video pranksters.

Hey, Wind-Up Records… can you count?

Parody: 144,968 Views
Original: 16,665 Views

The Eyeballs have spoken.

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