Time Machine

Yesterday I read an interview with Billie Piper in The Big Issue. Billie accidentally stumbled into a short pop career when she was 15, although she really wanted to be the actor that she later became. Looking back she said: 

“If I could go back and re-live anytime in my life, I would go back to my very, very early teens…when I had full anonymity”. 

It struck me as both very sad for her personally, and also a bad reflection on the massive music industry that had developed over the second half of the last century. One in which  hype and image mattered more than the people making it, their audience, and the music itself. 

Of course a mountain of great music came out of those decades. But I’m sure we can, and should, do so much better in the way we share our music, both for ourselves and for future generations. 

And thankfully we don’t need to create a new “industry” in order to try.