Navron wrote:ExoBassTix wrote:And next to that, why the frick not. This forum is about friendship, and how better to improve friendly bonds than by meeting up?
Maybe back in 2012, when all the musicians actually stuck together. Nowadays we've got out own music cliques and a whole bunch of e-famous musicians that won't bother to hang out with us, "lesser subscribed simpletons."
I don't really vote for either. I feel these albums have done nothing but create a further divide amonst the music community. Plus, the sad truth is that the money has to have some sort of priority funding, and I can't see the funding covering a relatively unknown artist as long as there's bigger names on the waiting list.
I don't think it should be for a general charity either. I don't want the great community efforts like Smile! or Seeds of Kindness being lumped in with the generally one-sided popularity contests that have been the past albums.
Perhaps if we had a more fair judging system that's less vague on their quality standards AND only allowed people who are actually active in the music community to participate? I'm personally sick of seeing big names breaking off from their stretch of doing non-pony music and ZERO participation in the brony community to suddenly rise from the grave and write their one pony song for this annual album, then request funds to go to a convention so they can bask in their own glory and ignore all the other musicians.
First off, lemme say that you are my new hero. A bold-ass statement like this is my kind of AWESOME =3
Second, lemme say that the thing I think is most responsible for driving groups of Brony musicians to form cliques and sub groups is the sheer number of us, plus the fact that we are generally ALL distantly connected... by SKYPE. Back in the day, before Skype, I was in the IRC ALL THE FUCKING TIME. It was great, a little clunky compared to modern IM and shit, but so what? You could leave mail if it was REALLY important, and you could even PM if you needed to. I never been a big fan of communicating via forum, so the IRC was PERFECT.
Then along came Skype, that gigantic chatroom in the sky, and a MILLION groups of which I constantly find myself knowing less and less people in. I'm still there, because I don't WANT to be divided from my fellow Brony musicians, but in reality it's much more enjoyable to be in a smaller group with people you DO.
I would love to be able to know and talk to EVERY SINGLE BRONY MUSICIAN, but the reality is that this is not possible. When I joined these forums there were around 300+ members registered here. Have a look and see how many there are now 0.o
I agree with the idea of not letting those who aren't active in the community collect on the fund, but if they're well known, their name will help draw attention to it, and the album needs that. The difficulty would be in deciding who qualifies and who doesn't.
Lastly, I agree that the aim of the album as well as the quality standards are not as clear as they should be. I like the idea of theme-ing the albums around the Mane 6 (and hopefully beyond), but I think the idea of "The music should be like this because [INSERT PONY NAME HERE] is like this" is very limiting, and often not strictly observed. There were tracks on RnR that weren't all that fast. There were tracks on Balloon party that weren't all that hard. And that's prolly a good thing, because a hard album alienates the community members who don't like it hard, both listeners AND producers.
My ideal layout for the album would be simply to have songs written ABOUT, or with samples taken from (cause I FUCKING LOOOOVE my samplework >=3) said Pony. This is a Twilight Album? The aim better not be on technical/complex/long entries, because what!? Hard to fulfill, unless you already write long and technical tracks.
I could go on and on, but fuck that, I'm tired. Stoked for this album no matter what, but limitations WILL be broken. They always have =P
