| The crashing of so many big music labels has started | | | | many indie music artists out there. |
| the Indie musician's movement. | | | | These artist don't necessarily straggle on their own all |
| It's really a movement, but I refer to it this way | | | | the time. Music managers are still out there, searching |
| because I look at it as a way of beating the system | | | | for young talent, craving for some original, sound. But |
| and the big giants that used to tell music artists what | | | | the thing with indie musicians is that they know what |
| to do and used to take almost all of these artists | | | | they are worth, and they know that if they want they |
| money. They still exist, but the internet and the illegal | | | | can make it on their own. So they will know what to |
| downloading phenomenon has made them smaller and | | | | ask for and what to agree to. |
| made the artists realize that maybe taking | | | | Music artists in the past gave their label company all of |
| unreasonable fee on their CD is not a smart thing to | | | | their trust. Some of them were well taken care of and |
| do, and maybe performing more can bring them more | | | | some were used. But any way you look at it, they |
| money and also maybe, just maybe, they can record | | | | were like children that need their parents approval for |
| their own music and make it on their own. | | | | creating and performing. Today with what I've |
| The fact is that there are music editing programs that | | | | mentioned before and websites like myspace and |
| any intelligent person oriented to computers is able to | | | | songwriting competitions websites, these indie music |
| work with and that you can open a recording studio in | | | | artists know what they are worth and as a result from |
| your home and even if you can't do all that, there are | | | | this we get more original quality music that is not |
| small recording studios that don't charge you that | | | | twisted by music labels that think they know what's |
| much. | | | | good for us and what's not. |
| These are some of the reasons that there are so | | | | |