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Originally Posted by Dacoro
I just hate the fact that major record labels are signing bands and musicians based on "marketability" instead of raw emotion, talent, or creativity.
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"Marketable" boils down to "stuff lots of people will like." If lots of people will like it, why wouldn't they sign bands like that?
This is true of every industry; 75-90% of the industry is aimed at the casual consumer of that industry, because that's the vast majority of their customer base. If you want something more, you have to do the legwork to find that remaining "specialty" percentage. And if you want to be that "something more," you have to work harder, because people who want something more aren't easily satisfied.
I don't see anything inherently wrong with that.