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Originally Posted by curves2000
The same level of separation is also prevalent in music and show business. A friend's daughter the other day had difficulty understanding that Justin Bieber wasn't even in the same breath when it comes to sales to artists like Michael Jackson, Elvis etc.
We researched some things and she came up with a list of music "superstars" Artists who have been some of the top selling for years and not just the latest sensation. That list combined didn't even touch the likes of MJ,Elvis, Madonna, The Beatles etc I get the notion that its not an accurate comparison to compare Justin Bieber to Elvis but just trying to illustrate a point about separation in history.
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Entertainment has fragmented into pieces. I read where a college instructor who had been teaching since the early 70s compared his students then and now. Every year he would ask his students who their favourite music artists were. When he started teaching, the class would be split about 50/50 between the Beatles and the Stones. He says now, the students almost all cite a different band, and half of them cite artists most of their classmates have never heard of. Same with TV. There used to be shows that had an audience of over a third of all people in the U.S. The most popular show on TV today is the Big Bang Theory, and about 7 per cent of Americans watch it weekly.