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Old 11-21-2017, 02:11 PM   #476 (permalink)
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I don't think anyone's going to give me any money.

But my overall point is I'm not interested in whether a band is on a major label. Labels are only interested in money but I'm not sure why they would bother looking for punk bands to turn into pop bands when they can just find pop bands.
Because pop bands have a different type of market than poppified punk bands.

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So I have no reason to think a label would make a band automatically worse or better.
Here's a great reason: Labels will generally take creative control and push their bands towards a profitable sound. Even when it's not a firm rule, it applies to Green Day as evidenced by the drastic shift away from punk when they did get signed.
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