Pop, is it corporate garbage or does it have it's merits? (metal, favorite band)

adidasss · 04-09-2008, 02:52 PM

So how 'bout that pop, aye?

Piss Me Off · 04-09-2008, 03:00 PM

Horrible stuff. Can't stand it.

sleepy jack · 04-09-2008, 03:00 PM

lol i h8 pop cuz i lstn to nu METALZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ROCK \m/ LOLOLOLOL

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-09-2008, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Oomph!

Yes they promoted 'causes' so does U2, one of the most rediculously commercial bands there is, U2 was just better at it.

Using music to label and promote a cause (as oppose to express it without wheedling or rallying your audience) is a very sell-outy/dishonest thing to do. If someone wants to use music to express thier feelings on an issue, sure that's fine, but 'rallying the troops' into a political organization using your music as a label for that idea instead of leaving your music alone as simply a piece of expression or art isn't as ok, it's compromising.

Oomph does not do that, nothing about thier music is some political beacon to appeal to anything outside of music and music alone.

Dear oh dear i'll reply to that when i've stopped laughing.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-09-2008, 03:32 PM

Still laughing

tkpb938 · 04-09-2008, 04:27 PM

I guarantee that this arguments not going anywhere...

mr dave · 04-09-2008, 04:42 PM

anyone who writes of top40 pop as garbage should try writing a top40 pop tune. it takes ridiculous skill to suck that much without making your head implode.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-09-2008, 05:08 PM

You really don't get it do you.

These record companies have marketing strategies that all end up with the same thing , sales.
If they want to market a Rob Zombie or a Godsmack album to someone like you of course they won't do it the same way as a pop act , they push it in other ways so that make you , the gullible anti mainstream metal kid thinks 'wow these guys rock , they're not like all that pop sh*t that they push on me , i'll buy that instead'
Seriously kid , there are a whole bunch of kids like you around who think that exact same way , and thats how those record companies make profits from that, in the exact same way they would from some little kid watching a Britney video on MTV.
Teenage rebellion has always been one of the biggest money spinners around.

~~Oomph!~~ · 04-09-2008, 05:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

You really don't get it do you.

No you apperently don't get it.

YOU...DON'T...KNOW...ME

I have NEVER liked a band on the idea of them being anti-conformist, all of the music I listen to I listen to because I genuinely enjoy thier music, and not ONCE did I find any of those bands on TV or or some mainstream facet, I found the bands I listen to with personal research, my dad's enormous CD collection, occasionally a friend will share a band he likes with me that I find to like myself.

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Originally Posted by mr dave

and herein lies your fault.

get over yourself.

That wasn't a groundless declaration, it was in response to the notion that people who listen to mainstream music aren't tremendously interested in music, which is the REASON my taste in music is 'better'; because I actually do care, quite a lot.

sleepy jack · 04-09-2008, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oomph!

No you apperently don't get it.

YOU...DON'T...KNOW...ME

I have NEVER liked a band on the idea of them being anti-conformist, all of the music I listen to I listen to because I genuinely enjoy thier music, and not ONCE did I find any of those bands on TV or or some mainstream facet, I found the bands I listen to with personal research, my dad's enormous CD collection, occasionally a friend will share a band he likes with me that I find to like myself.

My god you were just going on about hating pop because its corporate and how your favorite band was anti-corporate and you've made a big deal about it.

04-09-2008, 02:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,945	So how 'bout that pop, aye? __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

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Piss Me Off Moodswings n' Roundabouts Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: At the corner of Dude and Catastrophe Posts: 4,470	Horrible stuff. Can't stand it. __________________ Last FM Rate Yr Music Muxtape

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04-09-2008, 05:08 PM	#8 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	You really don't get it do you. These record companies have marketing strategies that all end up with the same thing , sales. If they want to market a Rob Zombie or a Godsmack album to someone like you of course they won't do it the same way as a pop act , they push it in other ways so that make you , the gullible anti mainstream metal kid thinks 'wow these guys rock , they're not like all that pop sht that they push on me , i'll buy that instead' Seriously kid , there are a whole bunch of kids like you around who think that exact same way , and thats how those record companies make profits from that, in the exact same way they would from some little kid watching a Britney video on MTV. Teenage rebellion has always been one of the biggest money spinners around. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.*

04-09-2008, 04:27 PM	#6 (permalink)
tkpb938 Lvl 70 Troll Hunter Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Sunny Phoenix Posts: 482	I guarantee that this arguments not going anywhere...