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09-26-2007, 07:52 AM
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Can this possible? Do labels know when they are biting of more then they chew? |
09-26-2007, 08:08 AM
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09-26-2007, 09:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | no if your unsigned bassically you arn't good enough to be signed or you arn't a good business move for the label. Major labels care about image, indie labels care about skill thats why pop musicians are all slim and resonably attractive wheras metal/ indie/ any other genre can look as horid as they wan't as long as they can play. |
09-26-2007, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Jezz8me  metal/ indie/ any other genre can look as horid as they wan't as long as they can play. |  "It's funny because it's true"- Homer Jay. |
09-26-2007, 02:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Well, we have been told that we are too good and too poppy for an Indie label by two different Indie labels. I guess they were just talking ****.
Oh well |
09-26-2007, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by punkbassistfc Well, we have been told that we are too good and too poppy for an Indie label by two different Indie labels. I guess they were just talking ****.
Oh well | Good and poppy are two different things. I doubt if anyone is too good for an Indie label, but too poppy, I can see.
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09-26-2007, 10:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: USA | | This thread makes very little sense to me. I guess if I'm "good" and physically unattractive, I've got a chance if I'm not too "poppy" Right? But just with the "Indie" people though. Otherwise, if I'm playing pop (but with poor skills) and go to a cosmetic professional to make myself really attractive, I'm on the verge of making the big bucks maybe?
What if I'm not too poppy, have the desireable Indie "attitude" but poor skills (appearance being strictly a toss-up in this scenario)? Then what should I expect?
Even worse, what if I have everything going for me? Lets say I'm strikingly good looking, a gifted talent with excellent pop songs that everyone (even superior musicians) would love? Now what happens!!? 
Hahahaha! You guys crack me up. |
09-26-2007, 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeb Lets say I'm strikingly good looking, a gifted talent with excellent pop songs that everyone (even superior musicians) would love? Now what happens!!? | then the major label offers you money to buy your songs for their product (ahem...band) to release. |
09-26-2007, 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by D.A.R.K. then the major label offers you money to buy your songs for their product (ahem...band) to release. | So now we all know what we need to do.
Become proficient on your instrument, write amazing songs that appeal to multiple demographics (not just you) and GET PRETTY! |
09-27-2007, 03:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Seattle | | | I would interpret "too good and too Poppy for an indie label" to mean that your band strikes them as skillfull, yet musically unoriginal.
Perhaps you sound (to them) too much like the mainstream vanilla that Indie labels strive to escape.
Naturally, I don't know what your band sounds like, I'm just guessing what they mean.... |
09-27-2007, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by winstonthecat I doubt if anyone is too good for an Indie label, but too poppy, I can see. | AFAIK, a band can only be too poppy for indie if they lack the requisite irony about bringing the shiny, shiny pop. (C.f., Shonen Knife and Redd Kross, for starters.) Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeb Then what should I expect? | In all cases, expect to be ignored. In the rare case that your band attracts label attention, expect to be ill-served, whether intentionally or not.
This isn't to say that nobody ever wins the band-meets-label sweepstakes; the odds are just vanishingly small. Anyone can play the lottery hoping to win, but nobody sober plays it expecting to win.  |
09-27-2007, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by punkbassistfc Well, we have been told that we are too good and too poppy for an Indie label by two different Indie labels. I guess they were just talking ****.
Oh well | Too poppy makes sense to me - some indie lables are very image aware, and want to keep their street cred, so to speak.
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09-27-2007, 05:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Wichita , KS | | | Who plays the Sitar in these Indie bands. |
09-28-2007, 06:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Lol to poppy for an indie label, that is rich. Indie pop is HUGE at the moment, most of the indie bands are pop-punk (meaning light hearted with punky sounding music not Blink 182 crap).
The Klaxons, The 1990's, The Frattellis, The Grates, all poppy, all on indie labels (i think) |
09-28-2007, 07:56 AM
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