Why does the mainstream industry only want a select few to be popular?

~~Soulflower~~ · 09-21-2014, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

I'm saying she's clearly talented but it's like I said before if you want to appeal to the masses you have to dumb down.

Take Bowie for example, despite the whole Ziggy Stardust thing, the whole Berlin trilogy thing which was showered with critical acclaim and have come to be thought of as classic albums. You know what his most successful commercial period was?
It was the mid 80s when he was putting out terrible albums like Tonight & Never Let Me Down.

Like I said, you want to appeal to the masses you have to dumb down.

Okay I gotcha and I do agree

But in the previous decades, popular artists have made descent popular music with quality.....why is the industry not allowing it to happen now?

I think if they shoved Janelle Monae down our ears like they do Beyonce and Rihanna people would like her. They probably would not have to shove her as much because she actually makes interesting music.

It is almost like we are being forced to accept these mediocre artists and I just don't like that

Back in the day, we had more variety but we were not forced to like those pop stars.