It seems
like we need to know what value things have. Salt had huge value in the middle
ages. Today you can buy salt pretty cheap. Things that used to have value might
lose it. That is how to look at recordings. Just thirty years ago recording was
expensive. You needed quite much financial backup to do a record of a lot of money
involved. And then you also thought twice what to record.

Today I
could just go down to the local electronic store buy a kind of cheap microphone
(or just take the microphone that is built in a laptop) and just record a
song. And then just put it on any social media channel in seconds, and even get
it out on Spotify in 24 hours.

The problem
here is that many think that the value of that recording is the same as the
recordings of The Beatles on Abby Road. It’s not. Technology has given us to
have better equipment to record then The Beatles had just dreamt about when
they recorded on Abby Road. With that came though the price that everyone
thinks they can write a song like “Yesterday”.

Since the
price is so low to produce things then the value of the product also sinks. But
there is a problem with music. The recording is just part of the product. There
is a difference in skills to write songs. Skills of writing lyrics. To be honest “Yesterday”
is still a great song even if I would mistreat it in a recording with a mic on
my laptop. Also, I believe that the Beatles would record the song great through
the mic of my laptop.

My recording though doesn’t have much value, only as proof of that, I should not be
recording Beatles songs. But the recording of “Yesterday” original is worth
millions.

Just because
you have created something it’s not worth the money you think it’s worth. The value
is decided on how many people that is prepared to pay for it. Today also the
time, money, and effort that is put in behind a song are many times a lot less
then it was 25 years ago. The whole process has made that music has lost value.

No, it won’t
be better if people started to put time and effort into the songs. Today’s
climate demand that we should give out music at a fast speed. The artist that tries
to do real songs is in jeopardy that they are forgotten between the releases.

Are they? I’m
not sure I think it’s time to stop listening to social media. It’s time to
invest in songs and taking back the old saying “writing is rewriting”

With good technology, we can do cheaper recordings, but we still have to do the handicraft
of a good song. A good song holds off on a bad recording a good song is not
holding up on a super good recording. If music wants to get back it’s the value we
need to create things that have value.