YorkeDaddy

Tbh being internet famous would ****ing suck

Your every move is overanalyzed by keyboard warriors on Twitter

Rabid fans throw riots when you change up your content, like what happened to AngryJoe

It would be exhausting

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The Batlord

You don't have to have a lot of subs to be a Youtube genius, bruh.

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Key

I think most of them become so blind to it because it happens so often. I imagine that's why a lot of youtubers don't rely heavily on comment feedback because it's usually trolls.

BassoonPlatoon

Yeah true you do need a way to sift through them all, but you have no way of knowing if one you skipped over because the one next to it had a better cover would be one you'd be interested in. I would just say don't put too too much stock in them is all.

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MicShazam

I look for a lot of music that is adjacent to a lot of really faceless, safe and boring music. So album covers actually become quite useful, since if for example a singer/songwriter type album has a really overlit, magazine-cover style, friendly, welcoming cover - it's almost guaranteed that the music within is designed to be bland, unintrusive easy listening. The albums that trick me are the ones that look really creative, but still turn out totally faceless.

Of course it's not an exact science, but it's not without merit either. Record labels do design covers with a target audience in mind, after all. Some kinds of covers reveal label meddling right away.

Key

I'd say its pretty even between an album I'd listen to just willingly and an album I'd listen to based on an album cover. Both ways tend to lead to either a really good album, or a really bad album. Though of course the only way to really know is to listen to it. But album covers can have an effect on the initial interest.

BassoonPlatoon

True, but that doesn't mean much. A record label could just be trying to force the product on someone despite the demographic it appeals to being an entirely different group.

For example, I may want to produce toys to sell to kids 8-11, but they end up being popular with teens. Based on my business model, I should shut down everything, call it a failure, and start fresh on a new project tomorrow.

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MicShazam

It's not that that can't happen, but in my experience, stereotypical album covers tend to mean stereotypical music. If it looks like some Celine Dion esque crapola for soccer moms, it almost always is.

All of the many album covers that don't fit so cleanly into a certain mold are what I tend to check out, since I can't "read" them from the cover.

I remember getting the CD for the Carole King album "Love Makes the World" and thinking "uh oh, this is gonna be crap. I just know it."

It looked like this:



And it was exactly the bland, adult contemporary turd that it looks like. Her 70's albums both look like better music, and very fittinglyare better.

MicShazam

Unpopular music opinion(?):

Paradise Lost is a really, really, really boring band. Sub par vocals, sub par compositions, sub par musicianship. Their high status in the world of metal is a mystery.

MicShazam

Even if you did like a few metal bands, I can't imagine Paradise Lost being one of them.