I meant that I wasn’t sure if I was being serious or not.
The people who make the most money in the music industry aren’t necessarily the ones doing the best creative work. For one, “ability to sell records” is imperfectly correlated with music quality, the people that are most visible might not even be all that responsible for the music in the first place, and the revenues from sales can end up distributed in all different ways. There might be composers writing songs that turn into hits when other people perform them who end up getting paid peanuts for doing it. I just don’t know.
I meant that I wasn’t sure if I was being serious or not.
The people who make the most money in the music industry aren’t necessarily the ones doing the best creative work. For one, “ability to sell records” is imperfectly correlated with music quality, the people that are most visible might not even be all that responsible for the music in the first place, and the revenues from sales can end up distributed in all different ways. There might be composers writing songs that turn into hits when other people perform them who end up getting paid peanuts for doing it. I just don’t know.