Why The Music Industry Hates Guitar Hero

 

This article goes in depth on the animosity the music industry holds against the Guitar Hero series.   The writer addresses several points and makes the argument that the music industry may be experiencing troubles with the digitization of modern music.  For example instead of going out and buying a cd, people are downloading illegally or making copies and giving them to friends.  From what I read, the writer urges the music industry executives to not lump Guitar Hero in with these other things.  The author states that the establishment and insane popularity of Guitar Hero and other similar games are actually contributing to the recent success of certain music groups.  The writer uses various elements of  sarcasm and analogies.  The author uses very well thought out logic and has strategically thought out the placement of their rebuttals of counterpoints while still addressing the defense of their own topic.  There is a very delicate balance between poking holes in others opinions and stating you’re own, and this author seems to have kept it in equilibrium.  This article effectively pulls analogies between this digitization and evolution of music to the invention of VCR’s.  It may have been seen as futile at the time, but I think we can all agree that it was a very useful change.   I think the main point to be made here isn’t that one side has been wronged; the point to be made is that these two superpowers shouldn’t bicker and just coexist without all the drama.