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FEATURE WRITER: GRACE FARR Y9

Should music be cancelled? That is give interviews and a perfect way to raise article, it has helped many fans, helping
one of the biggest questions facing the money. So why don’t you? take their mind of worries or struggles
industry today. Can you imagine a life and helping find a happy place. It has
without music? Neither can I. Music has Another problem facing the music also benefitted our country, cities and
become such an important part of our industry today is the large number of local areas, whether it’s helping support
lives, whether it’s waiting for a highly concerts and festivals being postponed local foodbanks or supporting small
anticipated new album or screaming or even worse cancelled. To some fans, businesses in this tough time. The ‘One
lyrics with your friends but now, it seems this is devastating news, ruining their World Together at Home’ concert, was
a distant memory. No longer can we go plans to see their idols, their heroes but a huge success, with award winning
to concerts; no longer can we play music safety does come first. Not only is this artists performing a few songs from the
with friends. We need music more than terrible news for fans, but also for artists, grounds of their own home. Artists like,
ever now so why are artist postponing producers and venues. It is predicted that Elton John, Lady Gaga, the Rolling Stones,
album releases? The fear of losing the industry will lose a huge £68 million Niall Horan and many more gave breath-
money. The fear of being forgotten. That’s from loss of touring, record sales and taking performances of their top singles
why. Why can’t we just lose ourselves in a merchandise sales and for some venues, and raising over $127 million for charity,
world of new music? Is that too much too there is no way back. As the 1975 say, becoming one of the top fundraisers in
ask? I don’t think so. ‘the economy’s a goner’. I’m positive that this lockdown yet artists are still striving
when life returns to normality, the industry to raise more money. And finally, after
In this time of worry and struggle, we all will struggle a great deal. However, it isn’t much delay, the 1975 released their
need to take care of ourselves, whether all about loss of money and net worths fourth album, Notes on a Conditional
its physically or mentally and for many going down. Many artists have described Form, showing their true selves and
people, music is a big help. A shocking the loss of touring as ‘being pulled away sharing emotions, as well as normalising
82% of young adults and teenagers have from family’ and being ‘stuck in a torture things that are never spoke about, it
agreed that without music, their mental chamber’. Niall Horan (who released is one of the best albums this year.
health would change drastically so why an album near the start of isolation) Adding to the quarantine playlist, twenty-
are artists afraid to release new singles? described the feeling as being ‘homesick’ one pilots released Level of Concern,
You would think that with all this spare and that ‘nothing compares to the feeling producing, recording and shooting the
time on their hands in isolation, artists of fans singing back your lyrics’, yet video from their own homes, with social
would at least be able to write and record that can all change with the help of the distancing of course. To the delight of
one single, donating money towards internet. Social platforms like Instagram, many fans, it had a sense of truth to it,
good causes like charity. I understand YouTube and Twitter offer a live feature, vulnerability, helping us to relate in this
that these times are tough at the moment so artists can broadcast concerts from hard time. All of this amazing music that
and it is affecting many people’s mental their own home. Whether it’s as simple has been shared in the past month just
health and that some musicians just as sitting in their garden with a guitar, shows the lengths some people will go to,
want to spend time with family but they beer and phone or a full show with lights, to release new music and we’ll be forever
could at least acknowledge us. So why fog machines and a DJ set, artists are grateful.
aren’t they? In a recent interview with streaming music from their own homes,
Capital FM, Ashton Irwin (the drummer much to the delight of fans across the Overall, these past few months have been
of 5 seconds of summer) revealed that world. Every week, it is becoming more a rollercoaster for the music industry,
he would ‘release an album tomorrow’ if and more popular with almost every artist with millions of pounds being lost, venues
he had the resources and that he wants taking part in some form. However, fans shutting down, artists afraid of the
to ‘give fans what they want’ yet is afraid are still waiting for a certain someone to consequences that could come but more
of the outcome. Is that what artists hold a live event, yeah that’s right Panic! importantly new and amazing music. It
need? Reassurance. Do they want fans at the disco. If livestreaming events carry just shows how strong the industry is and
to ask for new music, to say they support on much longer, could this mark the that if we all come together, the support is
them all the way? Well they shouldn’t. If start of a new era? An era of more online phenomenal. It just shows that music IS
musicians really care and love their job, concerts and more online music. NOT cancelled.
they should just release music, whatever
the circumstances and not worry too To the delight of many supporters and
much about the outcome. Only few artists fans, including me, artists have released
can do this, believe in themselves and new albums, songs, and collaborations
their music. If they don’t, then how are with most donating the money to charity
we, the fans, the public supposed to? to help with the relief of covid-19. In
Isolation is the perfect opportunity to be many ways this has benefitted our
productive, write new songs, record them, world. Adding to the fact earlier in this

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