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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Perfect. Just like people (in the main) who listen to pop music listen because, guess what, THEY ENJOY THEIR MUSIC! Not to symbolize a political cause or some image, but because it's enjoyable to them. It resonates with them. Get it?  |
They listen to watered down, plastic garbage, they don't like the music they like the image, they like how it makes them appear. Pop musicians (for the most part, especialy contemporary pop musicians) are not selling music that they invested passion and expression into, they have catchy little jingles.
The media tells these people what music to listen to, society tells these people what to listen to, it's the only thing they are exposed to. I don't listen to music to appear as something, to fit an image or to conform (not even to conform with the anti-conformists), the media doesn't tell me what to listen to.
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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen
Most commercialized pop acts don't "compromise" or "water down" their music either. The music they put out is about as good as they're capable of writing and more importantly is the music they want to write.
Compromising your music is only relevant to a band who are making say non-commercial music, and THEN subsequently watering down the sound in order to conform to their label. Note: this does NOT apply in the case of the majority of pop acts who have always been commercial in their intentions all along.
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Yeah, that's why thier music is chopped up by some 40 year old producer, that's why music 'videos' are more importaint to them then the music itself, that's why you don't see very many ugly pop musicians.
The fact that they were always in that state of being commercial doesn't excuse them or make anything better.
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Furthermore: there's nothing wrong with trying to write catchy commercially viable music. It's a style. It's a format. It could be good, it could be absolutely appalling. But inherently, it's no less worthy as music than the rubbish that your darlings Oomph put out.
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There is something wrong with it being passed as real music, it robs people of thier experience, and more over it promotes sheep mentallity and followers while discouraging individualism and critical thought. This type of music exists to exploit people and put blinders on them, that's what the corporate world is ALL about, not just in music. They want a bunch of obedient laborers who are just smart enough to pull levers and push buttons, but just stupid enough to be exploited by abusing wadge and watering down thier pathetic lives with plastic, manufactured bull sh
it that makes them feel contempt with thier miserable, repeatative lives.