>"And that would have been a good ad."
No it would not. It would still be as disgusting as it is now.
No it would not. It would still be as disgusting as it is now.
Which is a little on the nose for the way artists are feeling right now...
What exactly makes things any harder for artists than it has ever been? Was there some glorious moment in the past when people didn’t look down at the average poets for being lazy and useless?
Sure, laud the best of the best, but you know for a fact that you’ve thought it a bad decision for someone you know who isn’t gifted with genius level talent to pursue a career in the arts.
It has never been easy.
Frankly, if AI makes a pop song or if Lana Del Ray’s producers make a pop song, it really is no different to me. No one is going to replace the folk singer because the audience is already selecting for the poet, not the product. Who cares what frat bros are chugging beer to?
Is part of the response to this ad the subconscious realization that one doesn’t make or actively appreciate organic art to begin with?
When was the last time most of us went to an open mic? Or bought a painting from a local artist?
Just because you managed to use "tool of art" as a literal phrase doesn't make your point more clear. Why should I care if a couple of these pieces are destroyed. Presumably they didn't destroy anything of historical, cultural, personal, or scarce significance. Are you sure you're not making an argument based only in emotions?
You do not have to. To me the feeling was kind of visceral. I usually do not have habit of analyzing my feelings. But ok, I'll try. It feels like an ugly imbecile walking into art museum, crushing everything around and saying: what a useless piece of shit, here, use this brick instead.
For me the disgust was purely in waste of perfectly good items. Those instruments could have provided a whole music department for a struggling school or youth center. The paint could have even been used to brighten the place up.
But No, Apple just squashed it all to show off.
For me it is in your face ruthless "fuck you and what you do, submit to us" nature of the ad. We are different people.
An ad that was likely done in a single take, let’s be real, doesn’t matter at all in the big picture.
I've turned away from favorite bands in the past whenever I'd find out they habitually destroyed musical instruments on stage.
...but really, it's not punk rockers slamming their guitars on the stage and destroying them; they can't afford to.
I suppose that it's destruction of the material to advance the immaterial (the performance itself) but it's still self indulgent and wasteful.