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As the music industry enters the 21st Century, there are a variety of crises and issues plaguing different aspects of the medium. While some, such as the Napster on-line piracy debate, are prominently discussed due to their serious legal and economic implications, other issues lay hidden and remain largely ignored by both the public and the industry. Often such covert issues are in fact the most important, reflecting the true nature and struggles of the …

…it is mass-producing and who the main buyers are. Otherwise, society risks raising a generation irreversibly warped by entertainment and with a completely foul sense of values. For this, and for the side effect that the music industry’s focus on such music is having on non-mainstream and different and up-and-coming artists, the industry must re-evaluate its current ethos in context of its underlying role of exposing and supplying all music to the buying public.