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I dig this one from the net, just wanna know what's your opinion...
"Have you all noticed the way the music industry moves from one style to another? That is, the industry tends to exploit one style excessively more than others.
I'm just young so I only have actual memories from the early nineties were the big things were pop singers. Then it moved to RnB/Rap/[Black American street music], then Techno/Dance became big, faded and now it's moving again through RnB and (what they wrongly call) 'Hip Hop'.
In each era, the popularised style ended up loosing all musical value and comes to a weak and repulsive state. I think almost everyone has gotta agree with me in the case of Techno.:eek: I really noticed it happening with RnB because it was just before RnB became so popular the first time that I started to get into music.
Because RnB and 'Hip Pop (excuse the pun), with its image and connotations (sex, money, pleasure, popularity), was so appealing the industry jumped at it and did (and is doing) everything it could to make dollars out of it. So, as the industry's fat cats do, the 'music' part of music industry was forgotten and the 'industry' part took over. Artist were made to be sold, not to make music and so, unfortunately, a new more sellable RnB and Hip Hop was made which lacked much real musical value and skill.
It's true that some truely talented RnB artist still exist today, but most simply suck.
It's clear, with so many new manufactured rock bands coming out, that the industry is now targetting ROCK! Maybe I'm crazy, but I think they even tried to get Britney in on the action with her 'I love rock and roll' song. Bullshit she likes rock and roll! She probably doesn't even know the first thing about it! And then there's the devil herself: AVRIL LAVIGNE! (ok, so I'm being harsh, the devil isn't avril, it's the people who made her)
It seems like the music industry is like some sort of evil planet destroying alien race from a sci-fi movie, moving from style to style, juicing all the money it can from each before moving onto the next leaving all those behind in a musically offensive state.
I'm scared, I'm annoyed, I'm outraged that this happens! It's nothing but the destruction of music! What it does is leave the masses totally misinformed of what music is. Commercial techno is something stemming from the electronic music from the late eighties/early nineties. There are real artists out there who make music that most people will now just pass off as 'Techno shit' thanks to this commercialisation. The same goes for RnB. There are many talented RnB singers who loose face because of the flood of commercial manufactured scantily-clad pop acts who dominate the charts.
Maybe it's too late for rock, while it will live on with real rock fans, the masses will begin to believe that to be in a rock band, all you need is coloured hair, denim, a few piercing, rebellious lyrics and power chords just like to be a Hip Hopper all you need are abs, a sports car, oversized clothes, lots of big chested girls and a pumpin' bass."
Are you still with the force Marty or are you "Dart Vader"?
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