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Originally posted by the_faceman@20 April 2003 - 17:59
lol, people need to stop taking music so serious. It's entertainment, that's all it is. It's not a way of life. People don't need to have experienced everything in life to make good music.
Why should people care about anything other than the quality of the music. If people think that a band's quality goes downhill as soon as they sign to a major label, which it sometimes does as they try to please a wider audience (to make more money), then all they have to do is find the next so-called-quality "underground" band.
When people start talking about how they listened to a band or artist when "they kept it real" or "before they sold-out" or "before MTV latched onto them" i think they are desperately trying their best to show they have good taste in music etc. You gotta remember, some people only have the like's of MTV to let them know what is new on the scene etc. You can't hate people just because they realised a band existed when MTV played some of their stuff, and the viewer decided they liked it.
You have two extremes - the people that watch mtv or read kerrang magazine and go, this must be cool cos it's on mtv, so i'll listen to it. Some of this music is really good, and that is why it is popular. some of it is popular even though it is crap because it is marketed at the right group of people.
Then you have the people that avoid listening to anything considered "mainstream" or "pop" because it is "lame" and they then try to find music from bands that no-one has heard of before. Some of this music is also very good, but some of it is largely unknown because of the fact that it is crap.
People should stop trying to be cool or whatever, and try basing what you consider good on whatever you enjoy. If you restrict yourself to one of the two extremes i mentioned earlier, you're gonna miss a lot of quality music either way.
basically
stuff on mtv etc can be good.
stuff by less well known artists or bands can also be good.
the end. i'm sure this will get flamed, but only by people that are angry because they know it's true.
lol perfectly put :D