Arkham Noir
With black birds following me
"It sucks to hear that people lost jobs today. From what I hear that place is a black hole anyway. Alot of peeps are miserable going to work. They dont understand what talent is. They would rather hire a jackass that don't know nothing about the biz rather than someone that loves it and pay pennies on the dollar to get someone to sign their life away. I think that the talent should think about making the jump. I thank god everyday for my chance to be family with TNA. From the office to talent in TNA it's nothing but fun. All I can say is @tnadixie thank you for bringing me into the family. I love going to work. Hogan F'N rocks. I wear TNA colors with pride and will bust my ass to better the company.TNA TNA TNA TNA."
This was posted on the main page here and is a quote from Shannon Moore about the recent stars that were released by WWE.You might be wondering as to why I would put something regading TNA in the WWE section opposed to the TNA section or even the TNA vs WWE section, but it's very simple.The line "sign their life away" hit me. because I've been thinking about this for awhile...
Alot of people complain of how guys are unable to live up to their potential or that they never get over with their gimmicks. Alot of the guys in WWE are given some absolutly awful gimmicks, yet do them anyways. Than their are the guys that are shoved down our throats until we just come to accept them. ala Sheamus. I belive that this all comes down to the real problem with wrestling today. Hold on folks, this is going to be a long one.
Forget everything I have ever said about wrestling.I've had alot of time to think lately and have been thinking of the buisness as whole. One of the things are started thinking about was WWE's place in the wrestling world.As much as it may seem this way, WWE isn't the be all end all of wrestling, but their is no denying that WWE changed what wrestling was into what it is. Than I started comparing Wrestling to the music buisness and the whole thing just clicked and it became simple;
WWE is to wrestling as MTV is to Music.
This stament could be taken different ways but I'm going to address it like this; both wrestling and music are, at the root of it all, a passion. Making good music is something that is in your heart to do and no matter how hard someone tries you can't fake that feeling. The same holds true for wrestling, alot of guys just don't last because they don't love wrestling. They saw the glory that comes with it but didn't really love it. This is essentially the basics.
Where this changes is simply one word; Money.
Both MTV and World Wrestling Entertainment decided to take this art form that compltly captivated people and turned it into a money mill. It was no longer about conecting with the fans , but about making cash. Through doing this, both wrestling and music became corprate machines that take someone who look good, put them in the corprate branding machine, pops out a genric model with very little true talent and voila, instant star. To make it in the WWE and main stream music you basically have to "sign your life away" as Moore put it.Nothing is worse in the music buisness than a sell out and wrestlers do this without a second thought to join WWE with the dreams of becoming famous and making money. Guys will let themselves be humiliated byond belief in front of millions of people because they foolishly think it is going to get them somewhere. Don't even get me started on what the women go through. Women have to sell their bodies and any talent they may or may not have becomes irrelavant. While the men I'll compare like this; The overly muscular guys who are at avreage wrestling ( if that) ability are like Hip-Hop music, recent hip-hop music. I'm takling about the petty synthesizer made songs with nothing but " I like hoes and money" lyrics. It's a fast way out and makes them money, but in the grand scheme of things really does nothing for the art form as whole. Just makes money.
Some of you are probaly going to defend the fact that money is what matters in a buisness, for both WWE and MTV. But the bottom line is that what both of the corrupters do to their talent/performes is down right appalling. Musicains in main stream media are told what to say, how to say it, and who they are. Now that might seem really bad but replace the term musicians with wrestlers and I think you can see the overall connection I'm trying to make. I'm not trying to covince you, I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm just trying to put this out there because I really love both music and wrestling and to see them destroyed by being branded, labeled, and put on a billboard for sale really disheartnes me as a person. I really hope the day comes where these corprate entities lose their monopoly stranglehold and people wake up and begin to re-appreciate them for what they are truly worth.
Thanks for taking the time to read.
This was posted on the main page here and is a quote from Shannon Moore about the recent stars that were released by WWE.You might be wondering as to why I would put something regading TNA in the WWE section opposed to the TNA section or even the TNA vs WWE section, but it's very simple.The line "sign their life away" hit me. because I've been thinking about this for awhile...
Alot of people complain of how guys are unable to live up to their potential or that they never get over with their gimmicks. Alot of the guys in WWE are given some absolutly awful gimmicks, yet do them anyways. Than their are the guys that are shoved down our throats until we just come to accept them. ala Sheamus. I belive that this all comes down to the real problem with wrestling today. Hold on folks, this is going to be a long one.
Forget everything I have ever said about wrestling.I've had alot of time to think lately and have been thinking of the buisness as whole. One of the things are started thinking about was WWE's place in the wrestling world.As much as it may seem this way, WWE isn't the be all end all of wrestling, but their is no denying that WWE changed what wrestling was into what it is. Than I started comparing Wrestling to the music buisness and the whole thing just clicked and it became simple;
WWE is to wrestling as MTV is to Music.
This stament could be taken different ways but I'm going to address it like this; both wrestling and music are, at the root of it all, a passion. Making good music is something that is in your heart to do and no matter how hard someone tries you can't fake that feeling. The same holds true for wrestling, alot of guys just don't last because they don't love wrestling. They saw the glory that comes with it but didn't really love it. This is essentially the basics.
Where this changes is simply one word; Money.
Both MTV and World Wrestling Entertainment decided to take this art form that compltly captivated people and turned it into a money mill. It was no longer about conecting with the fans , but about making cash. Through doing this, both wrestling and music became corprate machines that take someone who look good, put them in the corprate branding machine, pops out a genric model with very little true talent and voila, instant star. To make it in the WWE and main stream music you basically have to "sign your life away" as Moore put it.Nothing is worse in the music buisness than a sell out and wrestlers do this without a second thought to join WWE with the dreams of becoming famous and making money. Guys will let themselves be humiliated byond belief in front of millions of people because they foolishly think it is going to get them somewhere. Don't even get me started on what the women go through. Women have to sell their bodies and any talent they may or may not have becomes irrelavant. While the men I'll compare like this; The overly muscular guys who are at avreage wrestling ( if that) ability are like Hip-Hop music, recent hip-hop music. I'm takling about the petty synthesizer made songs with nothing but " I like hoes and money" lyrics. It's a fast way out and makes them money, but in the grand scheme of things really does nothing for the art form as whole. Just makes money.
Some of you are probaly going to defend the fact that money is what matters in a buisness, for both WWE and MTV. But the bottom line is that what both of the corrupters do to their talent/performes is down right appalling. Musicains in main stream media are told what to say, how to say it, and who they are. Now that might seem really bad but replace the term musicians with wrestlers and I think you can see the overall connection I'm trying to make. I'm not trying to covince you, I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm just trying to put this out there because I really love both music and wrestling and to see them destroyed by being branded, labeled, and put on a billboard for sale really disheartnes me as a person. I really hope the day comes where these corprate entities lose their monopoly stranglehold and people wake up and begin to re-appreciate them for what they are truly worth.
Thanks for taking the time to read.