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12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music

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Zentner said:
Oh me too dude... I'm a total gear whore...

I'm just trying to say 'I've given in' and chances are most people here have too without even knowing it. ;)
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To me, "given in" implies some sort of reluctance to be inducted into a system you dislike but can't really fight. I happily embrace music as it is today. Pop may make up the huge majority of sales but go back just a decade and 1) There would be a whole lot less cool stuff float around and 2) It would be much more difficult to get to it. I've said it many times before and I'll continue to say it until I die, the state of music now is better than it has EVER been before and that trend will only continue.

Frank Tuesday said:
14. Michael Jackson sold more albums by his 22nd birthday than Fela Kuti did in his entire life.
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I'd take MJ over Fela Kuti almost any day. I've got no beef with Fela but I really dig MJs music. Just sayin.
 
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is it just me, or is it strange what the writers of this article are implying - the general idea being that modern pop music is not as good as older pop music. From what I can observe - it is all basically the same thing. There is no real difference between katy perry and michael jackson, for instance, and while we are on the subject there is no REAL difference between justin bieber and elvis presley - both of them wrote extremely simple music and had an image that made them extremely popular with teenage girls. The only difference is about 60 years or so.

of course, this is all IMO - I listen to a lot of pop music and I know what I like, but I am not going to fool myself into thinking that what I listen to is really any different from what the so-called masses listen to. Just like what you like and everyone else can like what they like.
 
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bassophil said:
First of all: if these "statistics" are based on facts, how can the music industry claim to be dying...? Doesn't go well together imo.
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Because the industry isnt dying, its the critics who make those claims. The old format is dead, we have this instead, and it seems to be working quite well.

One thing that further propels pop music today is that its readily accessible, and in all of your homes with the flip of a switch.
 
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Yep, useless stats without a per capita basis. Then, you could postulate that if you could download music during Beatlemania, etc., the oldies might slay the new. I bet all music also now sells more in adjusted dollars per capita. That blog meme means nothing.
 
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1. There's no accounting for taste
2. The average music consumer doesn't know what they like and simply consume whatever crap the music industry decides to market
3. Led Zeppelin doesn't care about this, and neither do I
 
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champbassist said:
I quite liked this:

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This nailed it.

Not to mention basic demographics... the US population is, what, double what it was in the sixties? So all the entries about X has sold as many albums as Y means that, per capita, X has sold HALF as many albums as Y.
 
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I think a lot musicians have forgotten how they used to listen to music before they started to learn to play. The average music consumer knows exactly what they like. It just happens to simple pop music.
 
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bassbully said:
Who like's popular mainstream music anyhow?
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I dont mind hearing it on the radio when Im driving home. At some point I got burnt out trying to keep track and find cool new bands on my own. I still appreciate good rock, and prefer a lot of the artists that sold less in the article than these mainstream acts, but I also find some comfort in music that doesnt take itself too seriously. And I dont know that anyone can say that mainstream pop takes itself seriously (maybe from the industry standpoint, though).
 
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