eva: an image from an old manuscript with a woman playing the organ and a small putto assisting (Default)
Eva ([personal profile] eva) wrote in [community profile] ebooks 2011-11-01 04:10 pm (UTC)

As a musician, I don't really appreciate someone who insists that their own artistic work should be paid putting down another art form. I have never to my knowledge heard of the band she names or heard that particular song, but quite apart from the fact that making music isn't only words, but well, musical notes (plus the time one spends learning how to be good at making it), she utterly manages to disregard the artistic element of music making. As someone who doesn't even create much of her own music except for some improvisation, and who makes lots of instrumental music, by that logic I shouldn't even be paid at all.

If she values music according to the number of words it contains, by the same logic a printer or typographer might start valuing her own words by the amount of paper/ink consumed, or by the number of fonts used.

Really not much impressed.

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