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yes exactly.
their lives seriously must just be fucking awesome. literally unlimited $$$ and girls for doing nothing

i guess.

I reckon I know what's up here. This was a media type of event where they bring each artist out for 5 minutes to perform "their song". At that point, does it matter if it's Disclosure themselves or some man backstage who presses play?

Reverb wrote:yes exactly.
their lives seriously must just be fucking awesome. literally unlimited $$$ and girls for doing nothing

yeah i think id find it hard tho knowing that the type of people i normally get on with would probably hate me

all my friends listen to shitty pop anyway, so i wouldnt have a problem there haha

@nevalo, this was all a test, congrats, ur a true head

id enjoy the money, but i dont think the lifestyle would be my kind of thing. or the bs music either.

Whether they're enjoying themselves is pretty irrelevant to the listener. I'm not gonna be like "oh well they got rich and well I would also like to get rich so yeah they still deserve my respect as artists"

Besides, look at who is at #2 in the charts in the UK right now. A band who've surely made way more money than disclosure have (or at least Josh has, given that he's the only consistent member) and have made three albums that I've been listening to for over a decade now with a new album that sounds fresh and is great. My point being that you can still have big hits and ride the fame in a respectable and tasteful manor instead of grabbing any chance for exposure and cash in a way that will alienate you and make you look like a fucking joke to the scene you came from originally.

mIrReN wrote:

Genevieve wrote:Chase & Status > Rusko > Borgore > Mt Eden > Skrillex > Disclosure

no no no put borgore in the back pls yoy?

Nah, this was a chronological representation of DSF hate. I think C&S were the first

wolf89 wrote:a respectable and tasteful manor

Like this one?

pissflaps

I wrote that late last night

you made a good point though

Reverb wrote:their lives seriously must just be fucking awesome. literally unlimited $$$ and girls for doing nothing

I'd imagine that gets old very quickly if there's no real substance in your life.

wilson wrote:

Reverb wrote:their lives seriously must just be fucking awesome. literally unlimited $$$ and girls for doing nothing

I'd imagine that gets old very quickly if there's no real substance in your life.

poontang

wilson wrote:

Reverb wrote:their lives seriously must just be fucking awesome. literally unlimited $$$ and girls for doing nothing

I'd imagine that gets old very quickly if there's no real substance in your life.

I doubt it. Most of the 9-5's people do for meagre reward are a lot less spiritually rewarding than even the shittest pop career which at least makes you feel like people like you.

I've never heard a Disclosure tune, but they're winning at life in ways people like us can't even imagine.

magma wrote:

wilson wrote:

Reverb wrote:their lives seriously must just be fucking awesome. literally unlimited $$$ and girls for doing nothing

I'd imagine that gets old very quickly if there's no real substance in your life.

I doubt it. Most of the 9-5's people do for meagre reward are a lot less spiritually rewarding than even the shittest pop career which at least makes you feel like people like you.

Depends on what angle you approach life from, some people see a 9-5 as a way to pay to just live and contribute their bit, then have interests that don't financially cost a lot to partake in but that's what they live for.
The music industry is as much a ball ache as a 9-5 for a shitty wage, sure you might get a lot of money quick from making music but that is only about 10% of it and it don't last to long for the average, especially in this day and age. I know artist that are seriously mentally scarred by the music biz because it's not what they imagined and it cost them relationships, they thought it would be...sit on your arse, knock out some tunes in your studio, go on tour and receive dollar and that's it for the rest of their life.

Disclosure >>> Loefah

loefah's got better hair than either of them

loefro uber alles

Discloefah

Pedro Sánchez wrote: Depends on what angle you approach life from, some people see a 9-5 as a way to pay to just live and contribute their bit, then have interests that don't financially cost a lot to partake in but that's what they live for.
The music industry is as much a ball ache as a 9-5 for a shitty wage, sure you might get a lot of money quick from making music but that is only about 10% of it and it don't last to long for the average, especially in this day and age. I know artist that are seriously mentally scarred by the music biz because it's not what they imagined and it cost them relationships, they thought it would be...sit on your arse, knock out some tunes in your studio, go on tour and receive dollar and that's it for the rest of their life.

I've been working 9-5 for 13 years. I am at peace with it because it pays my bills and allows me to have an extremely comfortable and fun life, but it's got zero glamour and, frankly, I work like a dog for everything I get; I've just come off a 30 hour weekend for which I'll get paid vastly less than these chaps will get for a single hour of putting records on turntables one after the other... I don't get dap from strangers, head from groupies and free drugs for turning up and fixing servers either.

Everyone I've ever seen make it in the pop industry has worked incredibly hard (that includes a few artists and a lot of "industry" workers) and I don't doubt that Disclosure have too. Tearing them down and trying to convince yourself that they must be miserable seems an awful lot like jealousy tbh... I'm sure everyone of us that's ever posted in the Production forum would bite an A&R's hand off if offered even 2 years on the road in return for making more pop-friendly tunes.

If someone offered me a 2 year break from my 9-5 in order to make records with Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber, even knowing I had to come back, I'd be out of here quicker than you could say "sell out". I have a feeling the vast majority of people, if actually being honest with themselves, would do the same.

That's true just all my point was is that for the listener the "I would do it to" argument doesn't really change the fact that you don't want to go see some dick miming a dj set.