I’ve heard from unsigned bands and songwriters all over the world, that they claim that myspace helps their music get heard, get success and become more popular. The thing I have to ask is, really? Does myspace really helps unsigned bands and artists get to the next level? The way I see it, myspace doesn’t do anything.

When I used have my myspace music account up, I used to think that myspace was going to help me get to the next level by hoping to get signed to some small indie label or some sort. Never happened.

I’ve been noticing that a lot of bands and artists would add as much people as they possible can, just so they can make themselves look popular.  They would add as much other bands as possible, they would add as much hot looking women to their pages as possible, etc. I used to do the same thing when I had my music account up. Does this really make you a popular musician? Bands also like to treat myspace friends like fans when in reality they only added you for their own networking. Many people could give a rats ass about you, or your music.

Yes, I know it’s possible to get actual fans of your music in myspace but the truth is, it don’t really happen much, I am noticing.

I know the truth hurts and it’s sometimes hard to face reality, but you have to realize that all myspace is just a big piece of fantasy land that musicians are all living in.

You’re not going to become a Dave Matthews Band or a Metallica, just by having a myspace account although a lot of bands and musicians like to look like famous people.

As I said in my previous blog, myspace isn’t helping you. You’re only helping the “myspace” site itself get more powerful.

I know myspace is just a promoting and marketing tool, but I wish people would stop obsessing with that site. That’s what myspace and News Corp wants, is you to obsess with it and feel addicted to it, they’re just doing whatever it takes to keep people there. People left myspace, going to facebook more now instead, I can see why.

Unsigned bands won’t delete their accounts and leave myspace ’cause they are all living under this delusion that they think myspace helps their music. Myspace is really useless to your music.

There are better ways of getting your music out there on the internet other than myspace. You just got to do some quick thinking and planning things over.

Kev

Many bands/artists, famous or not, think myspace is good networking for your music. If you get a reality check and get out of your delusional minds for once, myspace has actually destroyed the music industry. Not make it better. Why haven’t I came back to myspace music with a Kev Brock music account yet? ’cause myspace is not the direction I want to go with my songs. I refuse to do anything to help promote myspace with my music.

All you bands out there, that have music accounts, you are not only promoting your music and helping yourself out, you are helping helping and spreading the word on myspace too.

I don’t go to myspace music. I don’t listen to bands in myspace music anymore. I hate going through those ten songs and then getting a pop up ad linking us to some other artist/band in myspace. Myspace gets worse everytime.

Why are albums of famous bands get leaked before release date, and then the artist uploads the entire album to myspace ’cause of the leak? It’s all because of myspace. Myspace doesn’t make your music career better, it doesn’t get you recognized.

Why would you want myspace music shoving this female artist named Katie Voegele in our faces (which she is not a great artist anyways)? Why do you think Katie Voegele is myspace music’s prominent music artist? It’s because YOU let it happen. Just by simply registering to a myspace music account to promote your own music, you helped Katie Voegele become a signed musician.

Myspace is crap for the musc industry and it isn’t a good promotional tool, if you get a reality check. That’s why myspace keeps adding all these cool new features just to get people to stay on the site and get more people to register. I hate myspace ’cause it’s nothing but advertisements there in the music section and it was giving me a headache. I don’t see how people can waste all that time doing all that work: adding friends, promoting your music, gigs, etc. It’s just all a big fucking waste of time, myspace is.

I’ve been using facebook a lot more often these days. I don’t use my facebook account for my music though, I use it for my own personal use to keep in touch with online friends. I use facebook a lot more often ’cause I am planning on deleting my myspace personal account too.

People stopped buying records in the music scores ’cause I blame myspace for that also. Myspace isn’t great marketing for your music.

Will bands ever stop going to myspace and stop making myspace pages ’cause they think it will help get them recognized? NO. They’ll continue to stay in their delusional minds. All those bands in myspace, famous or not, you are not helping your music. You are all kissing Rupert Murdoch’s ass by supporting him, just by simply having an account when you are not even realizing it. Yes, it is true. You all support News Corp. Not yourself and your music fans. All the News Corp sleazy big shots care about is marketing “myspace”. Myspace doesn’t help your music, it did nothing but help “myspace” take over the world.

That’s the point I’m trying to get at here. Yep, I blame myspace for turning today’s music industry so mainstream and pop. I miss the days when myspace wasn’t around and good music was around back then too.

Kev