mr dave

right, but their actual talent and creativity only came to light after their initial surge to popularity thanks to teenage girls around the world. or do you actually put 'i wanna hold your hand' on the same level as 'a day in the life'?

as for the whole 'woe! it's not fair that talent is being ignored' angle. suck it up. yes, the people at guitar center are talented, same as all the other people hanging out at every other guitar center around the world, funny thing happens when everyone has the same talent. it becomes routine and boring. does running excite you nearly as much as it did when you were 2 and it was still totally new to you? playing a bunch of riffs on a guitar gets old eventually too.

EVERY town has one of 'those' kids with oodles of untapped talent. yet most of the time no one (including the individual) makes realistic steps towards exploiting that talent, and that's really what needs to be done - exploitation of talent. some people can handle it, some people don't mind having one truly special aspect of their metaphysical being run through a machine for the benefit of others, and, well, more power to them.

if you really don't care about the mainstream and are only interested in pursuing personal creative endeavors then it shouldn't really matter who's getting publicity in the mainstream. if it does, then you really need to do some soul searching to figure out which side of the issue you're lying to yourself about.

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Insane Guest

Thing is, mainstream sucks now a days. I know what you are tring to say, it's just that it sucks. But life sucks so...

mr dave

welcome to having a clue.

the mainstream has always sucked to those not part of the target demographic.

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IWP

Mainstream music should go back to the way it was back in the 80s. That probably won't happen though. =(

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Insane Guest

Yeah, that's just a fantasyworld at this point.

youngbridge

I would hope not.


Let's just destroy the music industry.

Chubbosaurus

Justin Bieber is a joke.

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pourmeanother

Well, the problem is that good music does not sell. Consumers buying Justin Bieber's album don't care about good or bad. They care about peach fuzz, blue eyes, falsettos, and autotune. If this was not true good acts would be famous/mainstream. I don't blame record companies - they are a business, and like any other their reason for existing is to make that $crilla - the problem is the consumers who demand music like this. All you can do is teach your children well, then push them out into that big, bad Bieber world and hope they make the right choice.

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Janszoon

Why? Are Cinderella and Billy Ocean really any better than what's popular today.

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Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

Urban Hat€monger ?

Rule no 1

The reason mainstream music from your youth/childhood seemed better was because you were thick as pigshit back then.

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