I really enjoyed this Sean and agreed with pretty much everything. The only thing I’ll add is that many people don’t know what they want until they are TOLD what they want.
Thinking about it through a music lens, remember back in the day when people actually listened to the radio? A new song would come into rotation and maybe you didn’t like it. But then they kept playing it and playing it. All of the sudden you started liking it.
Don't get me started on radio. My undergrad degree is in broadcast journalism because I wanted to be on radio. I loved radio. Reagan ruined radio. It used to be that non-compete contracts were the norm. You couldn't own more than one TV station and One radio network in a market. Now three companies own like 90% of all the radio stations in America. That's crazy. And it also means that whatever they want you to like, you will like.
The only way to combat it is to go out of your way and find music that isn't on radio. Just like publishing. If you only stick to what's in the bookstores, you will only get what the big five publishers want you to get.
Same with local tv news. Have you seen those clips where different anchors all over the country are literally reading from the exact same script? Embarrassing.
James Bond is another franchise sought out for familiarity like tater tots or your favorite childhood breakfast cereal you occasionally eat for dinner as an adult. A couple are very good, most, beyond the opening stunts, are very much not. But will we get more? Yes. Will they be mediocre? Yes. Will that matter? Probably not.
That's a franchise with a definite formula that doesn't allow for much originality. Daniel Craig's last movie was about as close as we ever got to a new idea in the Bond-verse.
I really enjoyed this Sean and agreed with pretty much everything. The only thing I’ll add is that many people don’t know what they want until they are TOLD what they want.
Thinking about it through a music lens, remember back in the day when people actually listened to the radio? A new song would come into rotation and maybe you didn’t like it. But then they kept playing it and playing it. All of the sudden you started liking it.
Don't get me started on radio. My undergrad degree is in broadcast journalism because I wanted to be on radio. I loved radio. Reagan ruined radio. It used to be that non-compete contracts were the norm. You couldn't own more than one TV station and One radio network in a market. Now three companies own like 90% of all the radio stations in America. That's crazy. And it also means that whatever they want you to like, you will like.
The only way to combat it is to go out of your way and find music that isn't on radio. Just like publishing. If you only stick to what's in the bookstores, you will only get what the big five publishers want you to get.
Same with local tv news. Have you seen those clips where different anchors all over the country are literally reading from the exact same script? Embarrassing.
Absolutely. Scary stuff. Orwell was right.
James Bond is another franchise sought out for familiarity like tater tots or your favorite childhood breakfast cereal you occasionally eat for dinner as an adult. A couple are very good, most, beyond the opening stunts, are very much not. But will we get more? Yes. Will they be mediocre? Yes. Will that matter? Probably not.
100%.
That's a franchise with a definite formula that doesn't allow for much originality. Daniel Craig's last movie was about as close as we ever got to a new idea in the Bond-verse.