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Originally Posted by Frownland
Not listening to ****ty music that uses "fun" as an excuse to cover its scent doesn't mean that I don't find listening to music fun as hell.
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Originally Posted by Silhouette
Its just surprising who makes the 'mainstream' (speaking for all decades), in theory it should go to the best artists out there, but then we end up with a lot of catchy repetitive emptiness that values shock factor over quality sneaking in there instead. How does this happen?
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Money. That's how it happens. A giant media conglomerate decides that they'll make more money and take less risk by doing *B*, so they do that, instead of *B*. Just how it's always been. The only difference now is that the whole youth culture of the sixties that we like to fetishize so much, with its Beatles and Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix, made the record companies so much money that they became far bigger than they ever had been before, and with size comes conservative decision making. So those same bands so many people look back on as the pinnacle of popular music were probably also the very thing that made it into what it is today.
But while I'm sure that record companies take less risks these days, I'm equally certain that they probably put out a comparable amount of garbage compared to a few decades ago that would appeal to the lowest common denominator in order to recoup their losses from taking risks on less sure bets.