Urban Hat€monger ?

It's always been that way.

Here's a good story I read.
The Boo Radleys were an early 90s pop band signed to Creation records. They'd had a couple of albums that were well received by the music press but they'd on'y sold a few thousand copies of each.
When Sony bought a 49% stake in Creation records and Oasis had taken off and were selling huge amounts in Europe they had a band meeting with the Boo Radleys. The guy from Sony told them that that if they wanted to get anywhere near the success of Oasis they had to 'Write songs for the idiots'

The band went away and wrote this..


The song got into the top 10 and the following album got to No 1 and outsold everything else they'd done combined by a mile.
After that album they went back to doing their own thing and the resulting albums just about sold about the same as before their success and they were kicked off the label.

You want success, you have to dumb down your product. It was like that 20 years ago, it's like that now.

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