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Originally posted by Five-hole+Sep 21 2004, 06:28 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Five-hole @ Sep 21 2004, 06:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-JiriHrdina@Sep 19 2004, 11:18 AM
Bah. Music snobbery really bugs me. A guy like this equates all mainstream music = bad music. Hey - in a lot of cases he's right. But if people enjoy this music than what's the harm?
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In my opinion there's lots of harm. Soulless, meaningless, corporate "art" is shoved down impressionable kids' throats, and the lap it up like thirsty dogs. They never bother to learn about artistic impression, and actually scorn it as some kind of effeminate, limp-wristed airy-fairy bullsh*t. Consequently, look at our society. What's artistic in our society anymore? Nothing. The fringe. It's bad. [/b][/quote]
You're so right...its not harmless if actual art is also distributed through media outlets, but all we get is formulaic rubbish...it all ties in with corporate control, and the constant reshaping of our society as consumers instead of free thinkers. Record companies want to sell as much as they can, so they market and oversaturate trends...its all marketing, and has very little to do with artistic merit anymore....and this all leads to a public that is told what is good, and will follow it like sheep...which is extremely dangerous. I don't know if the guy on the website was really funny, but the scary thing is he made some very true points in regards to clearchannel, and the impact of radio and television on consumer behaviour.