Editorial: Why Is It? By Amy A. Boucher Why is it that I have spent so much of my time defending my love for music? How is it that I have spent so much of my life in the study of music that some people even people closest to me can take no notice of, my resolve for it and goal to work in and about music? These questions have been looming in my mind for so long I cannot even quantify how many times I have sat back in a quiet moment and thought to myself that in specific places with specific people or people I come along and meet who ask me what I do, I find myself getting looks of disgust, annoyance, quandary, and sometimes downright disrespect. The days stretch and I work in my day job. People more associate me with that day job that has nothing to do with what I feel I actually do as career, instead of associating me with music. Why is it that this so bothers me? I will tell you why it bothers me, it bothers me because I think of how much music means to me. I take offence to this treatment because how dare anyone question or disrespect me for standing up and wanting to be the source for the source, to go even further, how dare anyone say it’s wrong to want to explore my love of music by befriending musicians. They seem to be the ones who can explain the world to me and open my mind so where is the harm with surrounding myself with those people; I mean they seem to get it. How does how I feel I am treated, in my love and motivation for working in music go with the intention of these editorials I post so frequently now? The answer to this is that for as much as musicians suffer “slings and arrows” as Shakespeare would have said, so do the people who have found music as the thing they love and just want to work with bands, play bands on radio shows, book those bands, and do publicity for those bands, they get the very same “slings and arrows”. I am finding on my travels as a Music Analyst and P.R. person that, and I have said it before and I will say it again and again. It’s a hard road, rock and roll. The intentions of writing editorials and posting them for me, is to get my chops up, share my thoughts and use this space as a blog, and musical source to share with many people what is going on in music from just one persons stand point Why is it that music people are, be it, business or musician, in many ways treated as they are with almost a careless thoughtless and almost total lack of respect for the craft? We aren’t mistreated, what we are, is a bunch of people who at the end of the day are misunderstood. Some people will understand us, some people will never understand us, and in some cases within the music people realm that we travel we won’t understand each other, but the one thing we should all remember is that we understand music in a way not many do, and that is the best part of being misunderstood, because we know a secret and keep it to ourselves in the most public way. We talk about music, share music, and play music live in public settings for all to see, and hear. If some walk away from it without hearing the message well then, at least we know. And with a smile on our faces and a wink for brief moments at least we have been understood somehow and in some way by someone. Why is it that I have spent so much of my time defending my love for music? I guess I will have to think on that more, maybe it’s my rebel soul, or maybe I have learned from Metal to defend what I believe in.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 02:11:57 +0000
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