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Originally Posted by wittynickname
In a round-about way, perhaps--but don't forget, generally the record company execs who discover and then prioritize those acts are male. Stupid girls/women buy albums, yes, but if it weren't for male execs deciding "OH MAN THIS IS THE NEXT BIG THING!" the albums wouldn't even be available  |
Not really though, they're just catering to what women will buy. If they marketed some new Neil young type guy as the next big thing that every girl has to embrace, it wouldn't take off.
They're catering to women, and they know what woman are going to buy. IE They didn't say "let's pick anything, but market it well and girls will buy it, and oh, how abot these 5 guys, we'll call them the backstreet boys and they'll sing simple dancable songs that girls can sing along to and... hey look, it worked!"
It was "Okay, what do these teeny bopper girls want to hear?...okay now that we know that, let's manufacture a group to cater to what they want."
....and it created one of the sh**tiest times in mainstream music.