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Originally Posted by rsandifer  I think it does in the mind of the public. What if you get hired to mix one of these albums then take it upon yourself to give it that old skool unpolished sound? Would you OR the artist be popular in the market? I am sure that the mix engineers that do this music get quiet a bit of work because they can produce this music. I always look at an album based on the quality of the recording and the work that was put into it. I once saw where someone was blasting Britney for doing 40 vocals takes/tracks. Doesnt it take as many as it takes?
Go ahead to start your GS crap but I thought the miley cirus album AND the lastest BS album was great. IT had every thing that was needed to make it sell the number of units the label and the artist needed.
Opinion on this forum are mostly coming from professionals in the music industry. We are very opinionated. Could I make a suggestion on a release? Could I think I could have done some things better? Well yea. I am an armchair quarterback as well. However, if a pro football player, that I ragged on, came to my house to play catch.....my big ass would be in the front yard  |
.Off topic I know, but I knew "football" would be taken to mean gridiron...I was talking proper football, what you guys know as "soccer"....you know, the one where the ball is actually played BY the foot by 20 of the 22 men on the pitch, and everyone gets to touch the ball instead of just hit other people?!
e..typical Brit.
Anyway, I don't think the argument is how to mix or produce pop music. There's lots of good pop music out there, and I certainly wouldn't mix it as I would an indie band. But you're allowed to make your own opinion between good pop music that stands on it's own regardless of marketing crap, and pop music that ONLY sells because of how it's promoted and who's fronting it. You think Miley Cyrus would be popular on the merit of the material, without the TV show?
I totally agree that the production on a lot of mediocre pop songs can be great - there's just not a great song in there as well. I was just defending the view that something can be popular (temporarily) AND crap, which appears to be impossible in the eyes of some.