nasnedagoniat
19-05-2004, 02:00
Scene 1 - Music Winter
The Russian State Duma decided that there needed to be a change in the music business because it was starting to decline all around. The Pirates who work with the State Duma were not as successful as before. The Pirates and the State Duma blamed online downloading as the cause for this depression in the music industry. They decided to come up with a way to have people "love" the new music artists so much that they would buy the cds, pirated or not, no matter what. One government official decided to study the behavior of music consumers. From his studies, he decided that it was possible to make a new artist that would spark the Russian music industry again. He claimed that there was a way in which music artists could be tweaked to obtain the maximum response from the listening audience which would translate into increased sales.
"With proper control of the artist's image and the composition of the songs we can create the most successful artists in Russian music history!"
"But how do we achieve this maximum effect?" claimed the head official. "Do you mean we turn to intelligence instead of creativity to produce new music?"
"Exactly, we compose a team of psychologists and hypnotists to achieve maximum effect."
"But, who do we get to work on something so novel and potentially powerful without the public becoming knowledgeable of our efforts to dupe them?"
"We need someone skilled enough in the field of psychology but totally clueless and naive to the true purpose of this project. Someone desperate enough to work diligently but to not think beyond the instructions that they are given."
"And where the hell do we find such a person?"
The Russian State Duma decided that there needed to be a change in the music business because it was starting to decline all around. The Pirates who work with the State Duma were not as successful as before. The Pirates and the State Duma blamed online downloading as the cause for this depression in the music industry. They decided to come up with a way to have people "love" the new music artists so much that they would buy the cds, pirated or not, no matter what. One government official decided to study the behavior of music consumers. From his studies, he decided that it was possible to make a new artist that would spark the Russian music industry again. He claimed that there was a way in which music artists could be tweaked to obtain the maximum response from the listening audience which would translate into increased sales.
"With proper control of the artist's image and the composition of the songs we can create the most successful artists in Russian music history!"
"But how do we achieve this maximum effect?" claimed the head official. "Do you mean we turn to intelligence instead of creativity to produce new music?"
"Exactly, we compose a team of psychologists and hypnotists to achieve maximum effect."
"But, who do we get to work on something so novel and potentially powerful without the public becoming knowledgeable of our efforts to dupe them?"
"We need someone skilled enough in the field of psychology but totally clueless and naive to the true purpose of this project. Someone desperate enough to work diligently but to not think beyond the instructions that they are given."
"And where the hell do we find such a person?"