Soulflower

So I ask again, if Adele can become popular through word of mouth with extra industry marketing how come the industry won't give other artists the same chance?

Why can't the industry also market other non traditional pop stars?

Adele is completely different from Rihanna, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Kary Perry, etc so the argument that she is pop friendly is rather ridiculous.

She is not.... which is partially why she became so popular because people were tired of the same pop stars the industry was marketing. They wanted some new blood.

I know for a fact if the industry marketed an artist like Janelle Monae she would be just as popular.

There some dices being rolled behind the scenes and I don't like it.

Urban Hat€monger ?

There's your answer right there, respectable sales but she's not exactly setting the world alight.

Critic acclaim + Talent doesn't equal sales
They're marketing it to people who need to know about it, I see her advertised in magazines, on websites, on the radio, they're clearly doing their job.
You clearly think she deserves to be in the top elite of artists, if they felt like she had that appeal they would market her to be that but obviously they don't, and I agree with them. How do you advertise the concept of a woman who thinks she's an android to housewives & people who week of musical excitement comes from watching people perform bad covers on X Factor?

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Soulflower

Lol

I want to ask you this before I answer this question because I don't want to misinterpret your post.

Are you saying she is too talented and interesting for the casual music listener OR are you saying her music is not that good?

Urban Hat€monger ?

I'm saying she's clearly talented but it's like I said before if you want to appeal to the masses you have to dumb down.

Take Bowie for example, despite the whole Ziggy Stardust thing, the whole Berlin trilogy thing which was showered with critical acclaim and have come to be thought of as classic albums. You know what his most successful commercial period was?
It was the mid 80s when he was putting out terrible albums like Tonight & Never Let Me Down.

Like I said, you want to appeal to the masses you have to dumb down.

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Soulflower

Okay I gotcha and I do agree

But in the previous decades, popular artists have made descent popular music with quality.....why is the industry not allowing it to happen now?

I think if they shoved Janelle Monae down our ears like they do Beyonce and Rihanna people would like her. They probably would not have to shove her as much because she actually makes interesting music.

It is almost like we are being forced to accept these mediocre artists and I just don't like that

Back in the day, we had more variety but we were not forced to like those pop stars.