Die Squirrel Die said:
I always wonder why people get so wound up about whether music is manufactured or not?
Though I don't listen to much commercial music anymore, and I don't get wound up by it...I can understand where people are coming from...but in other cases, I hate it when people like bands, and then start hating them when they become popular (unless their sound changed over time...but I remember this with the White Stripes).
I just hate it when great artists/bands are overlooked because they don't go with the manufactured flow. I mean...Bad Religion is an awesome band. One of the best ever IMO. Yet I've never heard one of their songs on the radio when I used to listen to the radio lots. It's great music, but overlooked because perhaps they aren't manufactured enough.
There is another case that pisses me off. There was this DJ called Paul Oakenfold, who played trance and goa-trance. One artist he used to play a lot of was "man with no name". mwnn's sound defined many of PO's sets, and PO started getting really famous. Then he started changing what he played to more commercial stuff. But PO never acknowledged the artist that defined his sound and made him so big.
man with no name is literally a starving artist, that hardly ever gets paid by his label. Yet he made some of the best electronic music ever. His sound isn't exactly "commercial" and thus he's not going to get big.
The problem is, these people are heavily discouraged from make more music as the years go by. Their passion lasts a while...but it takes a continuous beating.
