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THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A MUSICIAN ABOUT HOW YOUR MUSIC IS USED

Music has always been used by power (religion, politics, multinationals...) to lead people's emotions like the Pied Piper of Hamelin leads the rats. There is nothing as powerful to create emotions and appeal to the subconscious as the music. That’s why we, as musicians, have a big responsibility in how our work and our music is used. Also music is one of the most beautiful, delicate and universal languages of humanity. It is the most pure expression of beauty, it’s also one of the few things that makes me admire and respect humanity.

Of course, as musicians, we have to make a living, we have to earn money. But when somebody wants to book me or use my music, I always ask all info about the event or what’s is it going to be used for. I have to feel I agree and I want to support their cause. Otherwise I prefer to play in the streets. They are going to plant a seed in the audience’s heart using my music as a vehicle! Not in vain, our music will provide “soul” to their event, product or film or whatever. And it will help to reach deeply their audience’s heart. So I want to be sure I want to help them to reach them with their message.

A college of mine once told me “If they pay me, I sing their song. I don’t ask.” Provably he wouldn’t sing the song of AfD (racist German party) no matter how much they pay. Which actually means there are some limits. So, what are your limits? That’s what matters. I think every citizen should have strong ethics concerning basic issues, but as musicians we have a much bigger responsibility, since we have in our hands a very powerful and potentially dangerous tool: music. It depends on how it is going to be used.

Sometimes we can commit mistakes, or maybe we agree with BMW and the way they treat the environment, their workers and the message they spread. Or we have a difficult personal situation (we have children, someone ill to take care of, a big debt…) That’s fine. But we should take this decision consciously and assuming our part of responsibility.

For me, advertisement is the devil. The big companies are monsters who will never stop their forward motion no matter what’s in their way. They have to grow endlessly and distribute dividends among it’s shareholders. They will step on human rights, dangerous species, forests, or weaker cultures… But they have the money to create the most touching and beautiful advertisement campaigns, using as a background the music which will humanize them and help them reach people's hearts.

They will never have my music unless I love what they do. No matter how much they pay, I will never sing their song if it’s not mine too.

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  • AfD (racist German party)

    If there's any Germans reading, I'm sure you're in for some heated debate and probably have your thread closed by mod :D

  • edited January 2019

    please no discussion on politics... AfD is considered racist by some.. but that's just a personal opinion..

  • I emigrated from Germany a few years ago so I can't comment on the current state of politics or the AfD, but I know this forum's policy is "anti-politics" and to be honest, all areas of life are already heavily politicized nowadays in most of the west (ironically -- akin to the former Eastern Bloc!), so I think every effort should be made to keep music, sports and the arts free of that shit. "but that's just a personal opinion" :)

  • It’s impossible to seperate art from politics whether it’s intended or not. It’s intrinsically linked to our existence as are other factors such as sex, culture, education and any one of a hundred other things that consciously and unconsciously contribute to our creativity.

  • A friend of mine was in a band that did a radio promo for Budweiser. He felt bad about it, but the money kept the band going for a year or two longer than it otherwise would have.

  • As for the AfD people can choose to interpret their world view as they wish but the facts are self evident... “Over time, a focus on German nationalism, on reclaiming Germany's sovereignty and national pride, especially in repudiation to Germany's culture of shame with regard to its Nazi past, became more central in AfD's ideology and a central plank in its populist appeals.[2][3][4] For example, Petry, who led the moderate wing of the party, said that Germany should reclaim the German word "völkisch" from its Nazi connotations,[100] while Höcke, who is an example of the more right-wing views, regularly speaks of the "Fatherland" and "Volk."[2] In January 2017, Höcke drew heavy criticism for a speech in which he stated, in reference to the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, "Germans are the only people in the world who plant a monument of shame in the heart of the capital," and criticized the "laughable policy of coming to terms with the past."[101][102] Höcke continued that Germany should make a "180 degree" turn with regard to its sense of national pride.[2]””

  • I think we can blame the excessive demands made at the Versaille conference in 1918, along with the failures of the League of Nations in the sphere of international peacekeeping, for the scourge of Budweiser.

  • @purpan2 said:
    I think we can blame the excessive demands made at the Versaille conference in 1918, along with the failures of the League of Nations in the sphere of international peacekeeping, for the scourge of Budweiser.

    :p

  • 10 years ago I had a larger porn producer want to license my music for their films. Decent money, but I couldn't especially see myself being proud of that in the long run.

  • The CIA could use my music to break prisoners down, by playing it in a continuous, high volume loop.

    Not that I would condone that shit, though.

  • @eccecelllo said:
    Music has always been used by power (religion, politics, multinationals...) to lead people's emotions like the Pied Piper of Hamelin leads the rats.

    .....

    For me, advertisement is the devil. The big companies are monsters who will never stop their forward motion no matter what’s in their way. They have to grow endlessly and distribute dividends among it’s shareholders. They will step on human rights, dangerous species, forests, or weaker cultures… But they have the money to create the most touching and beautiful advertisement campaigns, using as a background the music which will humanize them and help them reach people's hearts.

    They will never have my music unless I love what they do. No matter how much they pay, I will never sing their song if it’s not mine too.

    Jobs allow us to build a life, start a family, invest in hobbies like music etc.. Companies won’t have jobs to offer if they can’t advertise. I’ve never understood the bias against capitalism and corporations.

  • lets not look at isms and schisms
    but at the nature of money itself...

    interest - usury - at the point of creation
    affords the 'money creators' the luxury of determining cultural values

    do dropped bombs really represent the majority of our ideals?

  • What if you sold the rights to your music to a label and, years later, that very music is sold to someone not of your likes?
    All in all we shouldn’t do music, nor any other creative effort, to be sure that it won’t ever be misused.

  • @SevenSystems said:
    If there's any Germans reading, I'm sure you're in for some heated debate and probably have your thread closed by mod :D

    Post in German and he might not see it.

    I think most countries have "far right" political parties. We used to call them "conservatives" but lately they have become somewhat radical and I'd called them "proservatives". They are changing the world... and it gives me pause.

    If these changes work for you then you might be happy. If not, then work to resist them.

    This pause, brought to by, Exxon Energy.

  • @McDtracy that's the thing. From what I've read and heard about the AfD, trying to filter the ideological exaggerations from their obvious enemies, the party would be considered "conservative" or "center-right" in any "normally-calibrated" political metering system. Maybe it's just that the whole political landscape has shifted so far to the left (particularly in Germany from what I can see at a distance) that nowadays if you don't deify Karl Marx and Mao, you're a right-wing extremist? :D

  • @simonnowis said:
    lets not look at isms and schisms
    but at the nature of money itself...

    interest - usury - at the point of creation
    affords the 'money creators' the luxury of determining cultural values

    do dropped bombs really represent the majority of our ideals?

    I have no idea what you’re talking about.

  • @SevenSystems said:
    the party would be considered "conservative" or "center-right" in any "normally-calibrated" political metering system.

    The center is being evacuated as we polarize. Some of my best friends are proservatives.

    There is hope. The values of the center remain: waiting for champions to unify us around core issues.

  • @SevenSystems said:
    @McDtracy that's the thing. From what I've read and heard about the AfD, trying to filter the ideological exaggerations from their obvious enemies, the party would be considered "conservative" or "center-right" in any "normally-calibrated" political metering system. Maybe it's just that the whole political landscape has shifted so far to the left (particularly in Germany from what I can see at a distance) that nowadays if you don't deify Karl Marx and Mao, you're a right-wing extremist? :D

    Hmmm, from what I have read, this is not accurate. I believe that the AfD started as a center right conservative party that focused more on economic issues but, as time went on, it became more focused on (to my mind) regressive social policies and attitudes. Racist comments and barely coded Nazi-era rhetoric of some of their politicians don’t bring to mind moderation at all.

    If anything, the world has swung too far right. Or were you being sarcastic?

  • edited January 2019

    People are saying:

    shifted so far to the left
    swung too far right

    Context. The center is gone:

    What's left is not right.
    And what's right has left.

    So we are left to rite and having writ... The Bard says it better.

    “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit. Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”

    In other words, life is so short. Shall we spend the precious hours we share in pointless confrontation when we are all brothers in music.

    (I apologize for the gender bias. Some of my best friends were women).

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    Am I right?

    NOTE: I'm passionate about politics but this just isn't the place for that debate. Really. It's just not.

  • edited January 2019

    I’m french and feel that fascism is at Europe doors, and racism has taken its place. This is a serious and no fun thing, History has been forgotten. But no, music has no power other that. I agree however with other comments and will never play music for a certain kind of people, even for a good amount of cash. I’ve quit a nice job 5 years ago because of a racist boss, and started to run my own business, it was a good thing for me at the end of story. Politics discussions are not a good thing on that kind of forum as it usually become quickly « troll city », but humanism and integrity have always been central to most musicians life.

  • Call me naive if you like, but I just don’t see this point. It seems ridiculous to me to think that music is much more than the result or expression of social or political change, certainly not the cause of it. Sure, as an expression of anguish at the state of the world, music has helped to unite movements, but seriously? A piece of music so powerful it could be misused by a bad actor like some kind of mind control weapon? Come on.

    Name me a piece of music that has been so mis-used? Sure, a politicians have often used popular music in their rallies that the songwriters have been outraged about their use. But wow, really anyone thinks that has made an ounce of real difference other than offending the artist? Seriously someone was more likely to be elected because of a theme song they lifted from someone who didn’t support them?

    Sorry, I think hand wringing over the possibility of someone misuing anyone’s art in any seriously impactful way is melodramatic at best.

    If someone used my music in public in ways that I didn’t agree with, I’d be extremely unhappy. Id disavow as publically as possible, and use whatever practical means at my disposal to try to get them to stop. But would I feel the slightest guilt or worry over the possible impact? Absolutely not. That would just be silly IMO.

  • @Tarekith said:
    10 years ago I had a larger porn producer want to license my music for their films. Decent money, but I couldn't especially see myself being proud of that in the long run.

    id rather sell my music to porn than some large corporation.

  • @robertreynolds :)

    capitalism, communism, etcism, etc, to their proponents, all have good qualities, and to their opponents, bad qualities.

    they also have as many definitions as people you ask.

    except where an ism grows wildly out of control, it is money (along with Love) that gets most of us out of our homes/beds in the morning, not policy.

    it is for that reason that politics does not interest me (left wing? right wing? it's that same old bird)

    but (like it or not) money moves me
    money moves us
    money makes the world go round

    but...

    in our culture
    in our money driven culture
    money is not well understood

    even by those that many believe would or should understand...
    https://positivemoney.org/2017/10/mp-poll/

    so it is money that interests me, and interest

    and the interest - also known as usury - on money, as it is created, that interests me the most

    remember, money IS created (it doesn't grow on trees)
    and money is NOT destroyed through use (the money i give you, you give on, etc)

    so where does our money come from? and where does it go?

    answers to these questions are worth investigating - it lead me through 'bonds' and 'gilts' - to realise that the power to create money is quite some power indeed

    money allows us to easily exchange our wealth (our time, our ideas, our products), and the faster our money moves around, the more wealth we exchange.

    a healthy money is a great idea :)

    a world where money grows up, rather than trickles down, is one i want to Live in

  • @ALB said:

    @SevenSystems said:
    @McDtracy that's the thing. From what I've read and heard about the AfD, trying to filter the ideological exaggerations from their obvious enemies, the party would be considered "conservative" or "center-right" in any "normally-calibrated" political metering system. Maybe it's just that the whole political landscape has shifted so far to the left (particularly in Germany from what I can see at a distance) that nowadays if you don't deify Karl Marx and Mao, you're a right-wing extremist? :D

    Hmmm, from what I have read, this is not accurate. I believe that the AfD started as a center right conservative party that focused more on economic issues but, as time went on, it became more focused on (to my mind) regressive social policies and attitudes. Racist comments and barely coded Nazi-era rhetoric of some of their politicians don’t bring to mind moderation at all.

    If anything, the world has swung too far right. Or were you being sarcastic?

    No, I'm actually serious... I don't know if you're as old a fart as I am (can you say that? :D), but I'm 39 and the west has definitely shifted extremely far to the left between approximately 1995 and 2015. Since then, what you describe as "swing to the right" to me is merely a correction of that extreme left swing back to the center. Of course perception of all this strongly depends on where you locate yourself in the political spectrum. From what I can see from your post, you're left-wing as you describe the AfD's policies as "regressive". To me, they appear relatively "normal". But that's fine, that's why people are different and that's what makes life interesting :)

    Yeah maybe some of their personell is a bit questionable. But from a brief glimpse at their "Parteiprogramm" (party programme?), I haven't seen anything extremist or racist.

  • @McDtracy said:
    People are saying:

    shifted so far to the left
    swung too far right

    Context. The center is go

    So we are left to rite and having writ... The Bard says it better.

    “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit. Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”

    The bard in this case being Omar Khayyam.

  • ALBALB
    edited January 2019

    @SevenSystems said:

    @ALB said:

    @SevenSystems said:
    @McDtracy that's the thing. From what I've read and heard about the AfD, trying to filter the ideological exaggerations from their obvious enemies, the party would be considered "conservative" or "center-right" in any "normally-calibrated" political metering system. Maybe it's just that the whole political landscape has shifted so far to the left (particularly in Germany from what I can see at a distance) that nowadays if you don't deify Karl Marx and Mao, you're a right-wing extremist? :D

    Hmmm, from what I have read, this is not accurate. I believe that the AfD started as a center right conservative party that focused more on economic issues but, as time went on, it became more focused on (to my mind) regressive social policies and attitudes. Racist comments and barely coded Nazi-era rhetoric of some of their politicians don’t bring to mind moderation at all.

    If anything, the world has swung too far right. Or were you being sarcastic?

    No, I'm actually serious... I don't know if you're as old a fart as I am (can you say that? :D), but I'm 39 and the west has definitely shifted extremely far to the left between approximately 1995 and 2015. Since then, what you describe as "swing to the right" to me is merely a correction of that extreme left swing back to the center. Of course perception of all this strongly depends on where you locate yourself in the political spectrum. From what I can see from your post, you're left-wing as you describe the AfD's policies as "regressive". To me, they appear relatively "normal". But that's fine, that's why people are different and that's what makes life interesting :)

    Yeah maybe some of their personell is a bit questionable. But from a brief glimpse at their "Parteiprogramm" (party programme?), I haven't seen anything extremist or racist.

    I am sorry to say that I am a much older fart than you are.

    Look at Poland, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, the Philippines, the U.S. All have swung to the right, especially the executive branch of each.

    As for party programs, they really mean nothing and are often purposely vague. You can judge a political party by the people in them and what those people do and say. My political orientation aside (which I would describe as liberal/progressive), there are plenty of quotations from AfD politicians that are racist, anti-gay, and anti-immigrant. And some of the rhetoric by AfD politicians deliberately uses Nazi-era phrases as a sort of wink to their audience. I’m not making this up!

  • edited January 2019

    Years ago, when i still had a tv, i would cringe everytime i hear a classical masterpiece beeing used to sell tampons or jello. Everytime i listen to La donna è mobile by Verdi i think of frozen pizza, when i listen to gold by spandau ballet i think of sanitary towels. Sadly the composers often cannot do anything, because they are long dead, or dont know, because a greedy publisher doesn‘t care how he makes profit.

    Beethovens third symphony, the Eroica, was intentionally composed for Napoleon Bonaparte. When it became clear, that he would not stand for citizens rights, but instead was a brutal tyrant, beethoven was raging and literally scratched bonapartes name off the sheet music.

    J.S. Bach put a ’Soli Deo Glori‘, which means „glory to god alone“, under his compositions. He made it very clear what his music was inteded for - „Zur Ehre Gottes und Recreation des Gemüths“. Freely translated, „To the honour of god and recreation of the mind“. Im sure he would be spinning in his grave, if he knew what his music would be used for.

    Some composers sold a composition for a beer, since musicians are always short on money and like to drink.

    Music can transmit strong emotions, and this fact is used by advertisers and propagandists to shameless extend.
    I am sure, that no artist likes the idea of supporting an idea he rejects.

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