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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Prince failed because he was just wierd and eclectic. He did what he did out of spite of Warner Bros. when he himself had lost touch with the kind of music that made him popular. It's funny, just like in Purple Rain when his manager tells him: "nobody gets your music but you".
Prince's one flaw is that he's eccentric and he doesn't care about making his audience happy enough at times. There are live shows he has where he doesn't even play at all or he plays really wierd stuff that nobody knows...and people walk out and demand refunds. The NPG Music club was a really odd endeavor online and he really never had a great song released through it.
Prince, if he was who he was in his heyday, and not clouded by his newfound religious zeal and eccentricities, wouldn't need the big companies to market him. I think young artists today are capable of knowing what appeals, especially with the internet. The power of youtube these days is rivalling that of a big music label for marketing somebody. There are many great muscians that realize this. Sadly, many more great musicians who are idiots who don't and have their labels force internet sites to remove their content...and thusly nobody ever hears or sees them or even cares anymore. They've become irrelevant due to greed.
The pleasure of making music should be in sharing them with others, and hoping people enjoy your music and like you and what you've created. A lot of artists have completely forgotten that.
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Well said. Although I agree with most of what you've said, some artists don't create for their fans, or care to appeal to them at all as much as they have an itchy need to express something inside them musically, that's a different issue. Neither is wrong, but it seperates entertainment from engagment. It's the ones that create for entertainment that should be hurt by this, not the ones that are "connecting" with a attentive audience.