Modern day music has been absoultely commercialised. Every artist seems to want to sell more copies of their album and to keep their audiences engaged they come up with new looks and styles, fancy artwork, promotional activities, hard hitting lyrics with very little stress on their sound as such. For instance Eminem relies primarily on his whacko lyrics more than his sound
Sometimes you may not quite like the sound of a band but theres something about their maketing strategy that make you like them. For instance the Gorillaz, with the whole animation bit it really works- had damon albarn been a solo artist not many people would hear him.
Some struggling artists give themselves a makeover to change opinions about them- and it works for a few. Nelly furtado for example- what happened to her in the new album?
A successful artist is a brand alone worth millions.
Fickle consumer loyalties have probably led to this.
Whats your opnion about this?
2007-06-29
16:24:49
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greenprincess
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