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My 0.02:
It's all about the gut-feeling I get when listening to a song and the performance.
So called artistic/indie/underground music can feel very honest, or sometimes just pretentious and false.
Four 16-yearold girls put together by a major-label, singing and dancing on given orders, feels either totally uninteresting (in most cases), or gives you a smile on your face 'cause the song is just a perfect 3-minute smash and they really deliver.
I am sick and tired of all the strategics in this business of today, but there are sooo many classic evergreens that we enjoy still and touches millions of people everyday that sometimes were written by someone who didn't care about anything else than to make a few bucks. And who knows what the artist thought about what he or she was handed in the studio? Good music is what you feel is good music.
Take a crappy cheesy popbalad of today, performed by someone who can't deliver at all, and then imagine someone like Johnny Cash doing the same song with guitar and piano. Same song but two different worlds. It's in the "ear of the be-hearer".
/EW
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