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11-04-2011 02:38 AM |
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Originally Posted by eraser.time206
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It was their marketing that made people pay too much attention to them. If Zappa was as marketed he would share a similar popularity. The British Invasion had great sounding music but garbage lyrics. Those artists with garbage lyrics were marketed brilliantly. Therefore people listened mostly to those artists. People grew accustomed to that type of music.
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This is pure and unadulterated rubbish. The Beatles made pop music. Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa did not. The Beatles music appealed to a much larger demographic of the American public than either of the artists that you have or may care to mention. That's all. England did not assault our country with their music; we demanded it. There was a huge market for The Beatles in America and other British invasion bands. If The Beatles hadn't been introduced to America, some other american pop artists who wrote "garbage songs", probably of lesser caliber, would have taken their place in our popular culture. Don't try to assert that the British invasion is the reason why Americans as a culture love pop music. We loved it long before any British invasion band hit our shores.
I'm sorry, but if The Beatles and the rest of the British invasion didn't hit America, Bob Dylan would be no less famous than he is or has ever been, He's absolutely legendary and teenage girls wouldn't be crying over Frank Zappa at his concerts. Blonde on Blonde would not have sold more units and none of Zappa's albums would be any more culturally relevant to us than they already are.
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Originally Posted by eraser.time
I shouldn't have to explain the evolution of this. The Beatles, Rolling Stones etc were great bands and made some of the greatest albums of all time but with that came a false sense of security for the American public. They endorsed a lifestyle of extreme conformity. People followed them. Because of that and many other factors present in the 60s and 70s the music in the modern age is as lifeless as it looked like it was going to be.
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How did their music endorse a lifestyle of conformity and how did any American music that was being produced before or around the same time as the British Invasion endorse a lifestlyle of that was any more individualistic? What other factors of the 60's and 70's contributed to the music lifelessness of the contemporary age and aren't we as an autonomous nation responsible for the quality of the music we produce, not some Brits who "invaded' our country 50 years ago with music we obviously wanted nothing to do with? |
