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[PhillyPhaithful48]

12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music




Sorry if it was posted already, just very depressing.

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

# 5 is far to subjective. No way to quantify or qualify that.

# 9 just a bad comparison

#11 calling complete bulllshit on that one


and as far as douchebags like Ke$ha out selling the Beatles... I blame Steve Jobs for making horrible music easy to download for .99

 

[PhillyPhaithful48]

# 5 is far to subjective. No way to quantify or qualify that.

# 9 just a bad comparison

#11 calling complete bulllshit on that one

and as far as douchebags like Ke$ha out selling the Beatles... I blame Steve Jobs for making horrible music easy to download for .99

Maybe they got more "likes" on facebook?

Probably in America. Beatles had a hard time charting in America for a while. Glee puts out three awful sones every week that anyone who watches will buy no matter how shitty it sounds.

Still, I also find many of these hard to believe.



...but #12 kind of makes the case

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

Most music sales these days are more the product of slick marketing, movie and fast food tie-ins, commercial endorsements/sponsorship, who looks "hot" in a video, etc.
Start with something mediocre, get a good producer and a great marketing dept., sell 8 million records.

 

[PhillyPhaithful48]

Most music sales these days are more the product of slick marketing, movie and fast food tie-ins, commercial endorsements/sponsorship, who looks "hot" in a video, etc.
Start with something mediocre, get a good producer and a great marketing dept., sell 8 million records.

Thats why it is so sad. It isn't even about the music. If it was, Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers would not be famous. They have been to the biggest embarrassments to "music" in the history of the world.

 

[IPostedWhat]

If it was, Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers would not be famous. They have been to the biggest embarrassments to "music" in the history of the world.

 

[filosofy29]

Sucks.

 

[PhillyPhaithful48]

I've never heard mother fucker used more times in one rant in my entire life.

 

[ritari330]

I've never heard mother fucker used more times in one rant in my entire life.

obviously you don't read Johnny Tata's posts out loud

 

[Nasty_Magician]

It has more to do with technology and the fact that music is singles based as opposed to album based now adays. Buying a song for 99 cents is far cheaper than buying an album. Didn't the Beatles just become available on Itunes this year? If these songs today are still popular in 40 years then I'll be impressed.

 

[PhillyPhaithful48]

It has more to do with technology and the fact that music is singles based as opposed to album based now adays. Buying a song for 99 cents is far cheaper than buying an album. Didn't the Beatles just become available on Itunes this year? If these songs today are still popular in 40 years then I'll be impressed.

If more than 5% of today's music is still popular 40 years from today, I will off myself on December 6, 2051. I think 63 will be too old of an age to put up with this crap.

 

[pixburgher66]

A lot of this is just inflated numbers in sales. Just so much easier to access.

 

[dare2be]

auto-tune.

that is all.

 

[IPostedWhat]

auto-tune.

that is all.

 

[Slimpikins]

There is a bigger population now than there was in the 60's and 70's. Every big new thing will sell the most because population constantly increases. You would need to compare percentage of market or percentage of population that purchased it.

Also there was plenty of god awful music back then too, you have just forgotten most of it.

 

[IPostedWhat]

#and as far as douchebags like Ke$ha out selling the Beatles...

She's bigger than Jesus?

 

[dare2be]

Also there was plenty of god awful music back then too, you have just forgotten most of it.

sorry, none of it was auto-tuned. that makes it by default better. or at least music.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

obviously you don't read Johnny Tata's posts out loud

LOL

 

[dare2be]

If more than 5% of today's music is still popular 40 years from today, I will off myself on December 6, 2051. I think 63 will be too old of an age to put up with this crap.

If any of today's music is still popular 40 years from today, then that just means that the music 40 years from now is just that much worse. if that is even possible.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

If any of today's music is still popular 40 years from today, then that just means that the music 40 years from now is just that much worse. if that is even possible.