2006-07-13 10:37:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
the internet, quite honestly. remember, talent isn't required to sell anything, marketing is. if you have a look/style/sound/message that I can market, who cares if you have talent? the internet has allowed many people who would have never been discovered through standard means to put themselves at the forefront of the industry. let's not even start on novelty acts. all we have to do is say "William Hung".
2006-07-13 10:43:26 · answer #1 · answered by Choose Life 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It all started with MTV. Back before that came out, the only way you could make it in the music biz was to have talent. Once MTV started up, it turned into a deal where you just had to be able to look good on a video, and the music was secondary. I really thought it would die off before 1990 like other kinds of music requiring no skill did, but it is still going strong, and now there are even "Z" radio stations all over the country that play the stuff from MTV, even though you cannot see them dance on the radio!
2006-07-13 17:51:29 · answer #2 · answered by Besmirched Tea 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Popular music in this day and age is manufactured to be as superficial and depthless as possible and given to easily manipulatible and financially motivated individuals to perform in order to seduce an easily impressionable audience of adolescents and pre-adolescents into eschewing their own individuality in the place of comfortable conformity. There are still a few modern/recent bands that are pushing the envelope of musicality. Many of these musicians and artists are talented on their own, but succumb to industry pressure to create radio friendly (read: unintellectual, contrived compositions of juvenile idiocy) pieces that are disgustingly memorable and present no real purpose other than separating the easily led from their money. If you'd like to hear good music that is still being made, I'd suggest that you focus more on things that are coming from independant labels such as Constellation Records and Touch & Go Records. I'm not saying that everything mainstream is bad, but the commercialized, streamlined, unoriginal music that the both of us seem to loathe is going to get more exposure due to its tendency to shift units. As well, recent instances of "payola" have been reported in the industry, which could also account for many under-talented or otherwise inane artists are receiving so much of the spotlight on radio or other music media.
2006-07-13 17:45:01 · answer #3 · answered by Trapdoor 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a combination of corporate takeovers of record labels, the older musicians decreasing their output (or dying), and "American Idol" dumping untalented vocal acrobats into the pool.
The joke's on the record labels, because most of their profits are from back catalogues, not from platinum-selling bimbos. Unless they truly go back to being patient and allowing talent to develop, the music industry is screwed.
2006-07-13 17:53:59 · answer #4 · answered by jpspencer1966 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One band gets a hit, 12 sound-alikes follow. The music industry puts out what they want you to like. The trick is finding the actual good stuff among all the poop they try to feed you.
2006-07-13 17:42:11 · answer #5 · answered by corwinnn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like who? Kanye West? Don't know, don't care just wish he'd go back!
2006-07-13 17:41:48 · answer #6 · answered by marieandlucaspape 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
compared to your CD?
2006-07-13 17:41:40 · answer #7 · answered by BonesofaTeacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋