| Agree with Jules whole-heartedly on this topic.
Music that sells is popular. Music that sells even more than the singles charts is even more popular. All the music that we love we have paid money to listen to, if it wasn't being bought then we couldn't even have listened to it to even add it to our list of favourites.
The biggest pop bands are U2, Nirvana, Chilis, Radiohead etc. Just because the subject matter isn't for little girls doesn't mean it's not pop. It means that popular listening habits have changed. The same reason we don't go out and buy skiffle records now.
It's popular music. This doesn't mean it's bad. And writing music that no one wants to listen to or no one actually likes is a waste of time. Unfortunately some bands have a contradictory view of what they want to be and on what terms.
Nirvana wrote unbelievably catchy popular songs. There's no such thing as 'selling out' when you're in an industry which you need to have your voice heard. I don't moan about my ISP when I put a web page together, its just part of the process. If I wanted to be really underground I could write a book, or only write my ideas on the back of postcards, knowing that even though the world would never see my vain scribblings, I knew that I myself was a genius and no one would ever know the depths of my talent.
**** that stupid double standard juvenile backwards thinking egotistical bollocks.
If these people want to talk about making an honest living because their lofty morals wont let them do otherwise, what the **** are they doing in a band in the first place.
Not only that, they're emulating bands that are succesfull, and they wouldn't have even heard that music without them being popular, and they heard this music on commercial radio and bought them in huge record stores and watched these guys they want to be like on MTV and at awards ceremonies - they want all that and at the same time adopt the moral high-ground reserved for people like Nelson Mandela or the Dalai Lama. **** off.
The fact is there are great bands out there who are able to do their 'thing' and still make great records without being 'afraid' of being succesful. If you don't want to make a noise, why form a band?
All 'the greats' were successful. What is the problem. |