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Discuss “Mainstream musicians don’t profit from making music”

In her Nov. 12 article “Celebrities favor self-promotion over music production,” Rachael Clemmons takes issue with musicians who use clothes, perfume lines, and shoes, rather than good music, to get their names out.

As a musician (and hot-headed critic), I agree with Rachael’s argument that it is frustrating to see one-time musical innovators — Diddy, J.Lo — putting out clothes and beverages impossibly hipper than their music.

But why is the quality of mainstream music diminishing? Is it the artists’ fault? With a massive increase in illegal downloading and a massive decrease in CD sales, there’s less money to be made on records in 2007 than there was in 1997, when Puff Daddy and The Family’s No Way Out was released. Popular...

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