A cellist who had crossed over from the Pop Music scene?
Lin Tian thought for a while.
He had to admit, it was rather interesting.
In fact, there were indeed outstanding music producers in the modern Pop Music scene. With their exceptional composing and arranging abilities, these musicians enjoyed great renown within the industry. Quite a few excellent musical works could truly be called cultural treasures.
However,
producers in the Pop Music scene were more often known outside the industry for shoddy, assembly-line music production, and their reputation was far inferior to that of professional composers in the public eye.
Actually,
it was like traditional novels and web novels.
Because the latter followed a commercial route, creators inevitably had to add elements that catered to the market. They could not serve literature purely for its own sake. Some had no literary grounding whatsoever and wrote solely to make easy money.
There was a joke that went like this—
If you made Yu Hua serialize six thousand words every day, he probably would not be able to write To Live.
But that did not mean web novels had no excellent works.
There were still quite a few authors who, while catering to the online fiction market, created fine works with a certain degree of literary merit.
It was just that, given the other ninety percent was utter garbage, public recognition remained very low.
No one would call a webnovel author a "writer."
Just as no one would worship an original Pop Music singer and call him a "composer."
Still, comparing web fiction to the music scene was giving web fiction too much credit.
In this age where traffic reigned supreme, the current Pop Music scene still held a very high status.
It could not even be compared with the classical music