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Marina's Commentary on the state of Dance Music
By: Marina
Dance music, huh? Dance music! You like dance music? I LOVE dance
music, twenty-five years of dance music, finally got a category in the
Grammy’s. What happened?! Why such a low role call of submissions from
this community? Well most of dance music’s so-called professionals found
every excuse in the world why not to participate. What’s the point? Who
cares? The DJ’s don’t get to vote anyway!........ And on, and on...........EHH!!
(Buzzer) Stop!!! Thank you for playing (no pun intended). Guess what folks
the DJ’s are not the ones, for the most part, creating the music. There is
something called an artist. Well look I know, I know there isn’t much artistry
happening in dance music these days you might say. Now, maybe that’s
true. Well, possibly, that’s because the real artists can’t penetrate the
grotesque cycle that dance music now appears to be spinning (Ha! Ha!).
How many truly talented artists have slipped through the fingers of the elite
sleazy circle that envelops our dance music industry. How can characters
that appear to be directly spun out of a Scorcese movie hope to recognize
a brilliant writer? How can an office administrator, now A&R, hope to
recognize the talent and work it takes to be able to pick a song out of the
air, write it, sing it, breath life into it and then share it with an audience. No
way! Now the way I see it the record industry is about selling records, right?
Well honey, no record label these days is gonna get rich off selling vinyl.
Now unless these DJ’s and record labels get hip to that they’re just going to
shoot each other in the foot. Let’s start again shall we?! Didn’t we already
go through Milly/ Vanilly?? It starts with a song. Then it’s about the song and
who’s delivering it. The marriage of the artist and the material. We,
especially in this country, are in an extremely visual age. Yet, why is a
culture, the dance culture especially, priding itself on "The cool factor, clubs
man.......", still in the dark ages. Get with it baby! Remember the power of
television, the power of the media in general. Remember MTV, VH-1.......,
let’s see the song! Let’s see the artist!!
Years ago we had performers! They made records in addition to
dancing, in addition to acting. It was called a triple threater folks! Amazing
that a form of music as visually and actively named as Dance music cannot
recognize the importance of bringing a great performer in front of the
public to sell the music. After all someone who has $15 to spend on one CD
in Boisey, Idaho has surely never heard of Junior V., or Danny T. Sadly
enough, they’ve probably never heard of Gina G.. Have you?
This year an entertainer was brought back to the forefront again to
remind us of the power that a celebrity can hold. CHER FEVER! "Believe",
Sonny & Cher re-runs, a book, a movie, WOW! I’m a believer! Cher at age
53 proves to those in the record business, that a truly talented artist is
ageless.
Help us dance community. We want our Chers’, our Bettes’, and our
Barbras’! We want Liza with a Z! Patti LaBelle with a P! Where are the
performers?
Where are our dance artists?! When are the record labels going to
understand that artistry needs to be nurtured and paid for? After all dancing
for Grandma was expensive! Ballet twice a week, one day jazz, one day
tap. How else could an aspiring, performing, attention-suck acquire the skills
necessary in which to woo an audience. And we want to be wooed. Boy,
do we ever! We crave it, fantasize to it! "Give us what we want, what we
really, really want"! No, not the Spice Girls, not the Funky Green Dogs, not DJ
Company!! We want the real stuff! Someone who we think we know.
Someone who comes into our living rooms and explodes on the screen into
song and dance in one moment, and then can turn and deliver a tune that
wrenches the heart in another. Someone who represents the fashions and
the voice of our times. Someone controversial but caring, fantastic yet
human. Where are the stars? Where are our Judys’, our Freds’ & Gingers’,
our Michaels’, even Madonna. Where are the dancers? Dance music, huh?
Dance music. You like dance music? I love dance music!!
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