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Originally Posted by peter12
Bull****. So let's just chuck Britney Spears up along with Mozart and Bach? There is a talent standard, people don't have to like my kind of music... but they should like good music.
Sweet lord there are about 50 bands in the mainstream and I can safely say they all suck... or almost all of them.
Edit: Hakan has got it down. The whole point of music "snobbery" as some put it, is to explore different genres of music. Nickelback et al are easy listening clone crap that doesn't require any effort on the part of the consumer to actually find good stuff.
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The profit motive would ensure the good stuff would eventually find the consumer if it were any good.
You're essentially saying these bands are poor and disadvantaged because the customer is wrong . . . . .
You sometimes see people or bands say, after commercial success, that it finally gives them the power to produce music they've always wanted to do . . . . . The Mavericks were on top of the world in the country genre and made such a statement then produced a few albums they considered a follow-up to their declaration . . . . . then fell faster than a comet when the consumer couldn't stand what they considered "good" music.
In that case, the snobs were wrong.
Cowperson