Okay, so I was watching this show on TV today called i-caught. It shows how some peoples lives have changed by posting videos on youtubes and getting an incredible amount of hits. YouTube is mainly composed of peoples miscues in life caught on tape, so here is my question:
Isn't this a professional musicians worst nightmare? Hypothetically, what if someone like Lang Lang really screwed up a live recorded performance. Wouldn't that destroy his career because it would get posted on YouTube and probably be one of the most viewed videos of the month or something! It really freaks me out thinking about the possibility of making it big in music, then having my dreams shattered instantly in one performance. I mean it's only human to really mess up at some point in time. But on YouTube, viewers don't realize that people make mistakes, and are ridiculed forever.
Knowing stuff like YouTube exists, how would a professional popular classical musician go about performing comftorably in a major performance knowing if anything went wrong, it would be posted on YouTube and ruin them. Talk about some extra pressure.
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