by Pulse Wave » 26 Jun 2017 05:12
Oh, we do still have very active pony musicians. Look at 4everfreebrony, for example, or the Wasteland Wailers, one of our very music groups. Black Gryph0n still makes music, but he avoids mentioning anything pony, so even IMMortal is mostly only reminiscent of pony.
The main problem, however, is the bronydom's attachment to those who rocked the pony music scene in '11/'12. Those who were around back then will always either keep comparing everything new to the classics (Mic, Tombstone, JackleApp, Eurobeat Brony, Sim Gretina and what have you) or cling to the classics so hard that they don't even notice that there's more to pony music. They tend to skip all music posts on Equestria Daily that don't have any of the old names catching their attention. And newfoals seem to often be indoctrinated into early brony music while being convinced that everything that came after "I Am Octavia" is crap. If they don't know any better, and they often don't, they might buy into that attitude.
It's also true that many brony musicians only used pony as a stepping stone to a career as a big professional pop/EDM producer or rock star. Once they managed to achieve that, they dropped pony altogether (often having no choice due to their contracts) and sometimes even pretended they had never made any pony music. Others have been mobbed out of the whole fandom for good by zealots who used brute force to expel people they didn't like from the fandom.
The controversial popularity of the big names—along with fanbois and fangurls gushing over them and total musical n00bs trying hard to collab with them in order to piggyback on their horse fame—keeps them in the shadows for most of the time, only surfacing when they release something new or attend a con. There's hardly any halfway big name left who still visits any pony forum, and this has been so for years now. They've completely retreated to instant messaging, social networks/microblogging services or even to e-mail.
And it has become increasingly difficult to find good pony music, especially for those who don't closely watch EqD. There are three major distribution channels for pony music, none of which is a pony site. One: YouTube. If you're looking for pony or brony music on YouTube, you have to either already know some names or wade through masses of crud uploaded by fame-whoring but talentless kiddies who think they can become the next Sim Gretina over night. Two: Soundcloud. And that's already far less used than YouTube because YouTube has more users. Needless to say that hardly anypony allows their music to be downloaded from Soundcloud, because three: Bandcamp. If it's quality music by halfway well-known names, you pretty much always have to pay for it. Or rip it from YouTube or Soundcloud and deal with sub-par sound quality. Brony musicians who know they're good seem to always try to turn their pony music into money; what's on Pony.fm is either taken over from other music archives or uploaded by the nameless, faceless mass with next to no listeners.
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