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Originally Posted by MyRapNameIsAlex
Well, first of all YouTube is where all trolls congregate. It's like the 2nd troll heaven after 4chan. It's a mix of people who really want a nice anonymous place to say all of the rude things they wouldn't say to people in person and people who just want to get people's goat and see if they can whip others into an emotional post for their own amusement.
But, even in spite of that. A lot of people hate rap music more and more because they feel it is hurting people on purpose just to make a buck. A lot of people like myself feel like Hip Hop was a diverse and beautiful culture that got standardized, bastardized and turned into a really boring and hurtful cartoon of its former self that reflects poorly on urban youth. I could go on but I'll stop myself.
Pop music is hated on because it's pop music and that's what it's there for. The pop music gets marketed to all the 13 year olds and makes a ton of money off of them. And then all other music gets marketed as anti-pop and makes a ton of money off of contrasting itself to pop music. That's how music is sold.
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I went to the lastFM Funk tag, and listened to some of the top artists. Compare the absolute first, Jamiroquai(never heard of that artist before), to the rest. I noticed it just has this ''poppy'' or ''mainstream'' sound in his voice, and little did I know, turns out he's popular, judging from the youtube views. What's with this? Do marketing people just know this exact sound of voice that appeals to a wide audience or something?. Then there's a few friends I have. I like Punk and Rock, and they listen to ''rock'' artists I either really dislike or hate. Breaking Benjamin, Panic! At the disco, Three Days Grace, Fall out Boy etc. I noticed how music appeals to them if it has this certain type of vocals I usually dislike, it seems. Is there this secret formula that makes things appeal to teenagers, and a wide audience in general or something? I'm still just trying to figure out what makes certain music liked by the mainstream, but other music that's accessable enough and just as well of a candidate not.
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