| You have to take yourself out of the "industry" point of view to understand I think.
The songs on the radio make me want to puke most of the time. But I'll be damned if I don't run into non-musician types every day who love the crap. It's not that a crappy song is dressed up by production to trick people into thinking it's good, or that marketing forces it down people's throat. The songs that are hits are actually what average people want to hear. It's sad, but that's just the way it goes now a dayz. In the 70's the industry was run by the insiders. Producers, musicians, and people who were really into great music. But THEY force fed good music onto people. Now it's more market driven and the people who actually like good music are no longer in control. So it's governed completely by demand. Unfortunately Americans demand mediocre crap. |