{"id":151586,"date":"2018-05-02T18:28:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/?p=151586"},"modified":"2018-05-07T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T09:08:52","slug":"musicians-insights-pom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/inspire\/musicians-insights-pom\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician&#8217;s Insights: Truth or Clich\u00e9?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musicians know a lot of <strong>stories, legends <\/strong>and<strong> half-truths<\/strong> &#8211; and they love them. Between Rock&#8217;n&#8217;Rollers marauding in hotel rooms and die-hard rappers&#8217; street gang activity, the second phase of\u00a0the Power Of Music campaign focuses on these <strong>clich\u00e9s<\/strong> (or are they<strong> truths<\/strong>?).<\/p>\n<p>Various motifs in 2017 offered the more <strong>&#8220;unexpected&#8221; insights<\/strong> into the world of music. The tonality of the production varied from <strong>deliberately provocative<\/strong> to <strong>philosophically playful<\/strong>, from hard rock to ballad, but the common denominator always remained &#8220;The Power Of Music&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While the first phase of the campaign still had the primary goal of establishing the basic idea of \u200b\u200b&#8221;The Power Of Music&#8221;, the new motifs were intended to reveal and <strong>make fun of<\/strong> the power mechanisms which exist in the music world. The <strong>tongue-in-cheek\u00a0<\/strong>compositions of image and text played <strong>self-deprecatingly<\/strong> with music scene clich\u00e9s, such as violent Death Metal-heads, roaring football fan choirs or fanatical fans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Songschreiben-GB-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Songschreiben-GB-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1361\" height=\"879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Songschreiben-GB-1.jpg 1361w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Songschreiben-GB-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Songschreiben-GB-1-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Songschreiben-GB-1-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1361px) 100vw, 1361px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, not only musicians, but also young &#8220;<strong>yet-to-be-musicians<\/strong>&#8220;, enthusiastic about making music, should be addressed. Enough words, let the images speak for themselves. Here&#8217;s a selection of &#8220;Musician Insights&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Scheibe-GB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Scheibe-GB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1361\" height=\"879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/Scheibe-GB.jpg 1361w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/Scheibe-GB-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/Scheibe-GB-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/Scheibe-GB-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1361px) 100vw, 1361px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bankmanager_GB-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bankmanager_GB-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1361\" height=\"879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Bankmanager_GB-1.jpg 1361w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Bankmanager_GB-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Bankmanager_GB-1-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Bankmanager_GB-1-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1361px) 100vw, 1361px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Goth_GB-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Goth_GB-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1361\" height=\"879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Goth_GB-1.jpg 1361w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Goth_GB-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Goth_GB-1-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Goth_GB-1-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1361px) 100vw, 1361px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Hotel_GB-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Hotel_GB-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1361\" height=\"879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Hotel_GB-1.jpg 1361w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Hotel_GB-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Hotel_GB-1-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Hotel_GB-1-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1361px) 100vw, 1361px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Which <strong>motif<\/strong> do you like best (or not at all) and why? Write your answer in the <strong>comments<\/strong> below. We always appreciate your contributions!\u00a0<strong>?\u270d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"advads-content-injection-before-content advads-entity-placement\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"advads-1974330587\"><div class=\"advads-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><div id=\"advads-3740326566\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/intl\/index.html?utm_medium=display&#038;utm_source=partnersite&#038;utm_campaign=branding&#038;utm_content=thoshop&#038;utm_term=gemischt\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"2502_Gear_Banner_Gemischt_729x90_EN_v01\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/2502_Gear_Banner_Gemischt_729x90_EN_v01.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/2502_Gear_Banner_Gemischt_729x90_EN_v01.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/2502_Gear_Banner_Gemischt_729x90_EN_v01-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"   \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out these clich\u00e9s about musicians, or are they truths?? You be the judge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":154679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tblog_post_audio_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspire"],"category_colors":{"color_key":"inspire","css_classes":{"text":"cat-inspire","text_light":"cat-inspire-light","bg":"cat-bg-inspire","bg_light":"cat-bg-inspire-light","border":"cat-border-inspire","text_on_bg":"cat-text-on-inspire"}},"reading_time":{"minutes":1,"formatted":"1 min"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}