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Originally Posted by Thomas W. Bethe  The Madison avenue types that control much of the music industry are NOT primarily musicians and have publicly stated on numerous occasions that they could be selling shoes, farm tractors or widgets because they are MBAs and or lawyers and their job is to make money and they really don't care what product they are selling. |
I'm not talking about anybody at record companies. You could swap them all for anybody of your choice and it would not change anything.
I'm talking about the Madison Avenue advertising agencies that sponsor radio and television broadcasts along with many of today's live performances. Record companies are having to second-guess these folks in order to get any new music exposed in the mainstream. Record companies have the least input as to what music can get exposed to the mainstream of any time I can remember. The big labels are a messenger carrying an ugly ugly message.
Like it or not, the mainstream is where most people hear new music for the first time.