"It just blows my MIND... y'know..."

During the summer, I had decided to check out scenes from the Green Day rock musical American Idiot, being the little drama nerd that I was. And then I had stumbled into videos of interviews of Green Day themselves. One of the videos was this one:

Okay... it's not super deep and profound like I thought it was in the beginning... But somehow, my mind interpreted Billy Joe's ridiculousness into an interesting thought. There were many apps for instruments and music making that had been developed... And I'm sure someday that there will be the opportunity for people to submit their own works into the internet.

But... Where would that leave all the professional musicians? How would they be able to pay the bills if everyone else was making their own songs and listening to their own music...? If technology advances far off... Will musicians be considered a profession anymore?

"He says he wants to do the same thing for... the book industry that he did for the music industry... And I'm not sure if that's FOR the music industry or TO the music industry. So I'm not quite sure when enough is enough."

To me it's almost as if he's thinking that  CDs and books will somehow become obsolete. Maybe I'm looking too much into this, but the way I interpret it, it seems like he's nervous that the iPad will put him our of a job... (no pun intended :P)

Even with our students in schools, how will we be able to get them interested in playing the actual instruments that have been supplied by our schools or rented by music shops when they have the musical tools on the iPad. Especially since we haven't been properly trained on the functions?


Well... those are my questions for the day... Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you're stuffed with turkey.