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Originally Posted by The Music Watchtower
but nobody seemed to pick up on the fact that the mass market crap has such a vast scale of influence, as it is shoved down the throats of most young people, who a lot of end up believing that what the commercial radios play is where it is at as they get older. Now most internet users know that the internet is full of alt places hosting great music.
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Taking this quote in isolation you give me the impression that you think that "mass market crap" having an "influence" is some new phenomenon. Sorry readers but this type of reaction by the musical elite to what they feel that the masses should listen to is nothing new.
The history of music is littered with those that think that the masses have no idea. Elitism towards the popular was around when Strauss was a boy. And that can be what ever Strauss you want it to be.
. When I was a young bloke T Rex where trashed by Led Zap Fans. I heard statements like Slade could not play their instruments. "They are only in it for the money" was, and may still be for all I know, a common mantra against the Top Of the Pops artistes. That one has particularly made me laugh over the years. "They are only in it for the money
". There have certainly been some artists in this world who were not interested in making money for their art but the reality is that the vast majority of artists that can make a living out of it would rather do that than have a job on a production line making tin cans for a living for not much an hour. As to top line artists who are popular with the musical elites it never ceases to amaze me that they are defended because of their art with out the defenders getting stuck into them for releasing countless "best of" etc style albums. Want an example? all music list 28 Led Zeppelin compilations to 9 official studio releases. So saying that radio stations "shoved down the throats of most young people" is not much different to me than the fact that record companies such as Zeps can con the dosh out of the pocket of the "elites" that are Zep fans.
I find debates like this a waste of time. Just listen and enjoy. Who cares how much they sell or how much radio time they get. You either like it or you don't. That is what aesthetic values are all about.