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Topic History of: Great Record People of our time...
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Harry Rednapp |
Point taken JK and agreed....I just find this fixation with Simon Cowell as a shining example of 'how to do it' a bit exasperating when some of the spirit of the people I mentioned in my first correspondence - Blackwell, Gordy, Mcghee etc - seemingly forgotten or thought of as never to be repeated (from a musical point...not business wise...)
They all knew catchy tunes and simple hooks - and found relevant, meaningful, cool and varied music. No problem with conveyor belt stuff either - look at Motown.Very little chaff there!
We'd all stand up for human rights against overwhelming circumstances - cant we stand up here and say 'Its rubbish' - or maybe you're all fans of Steve Brookstein, or Leon or whatever they are called...
I thought 'Everyones Gone To the Moon' was/is a good track, and 'Good News Week' had a pretty cool lyric - cant see Leona covering that one...! |
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SW |
Wrong, Blue Boy. The generation you refer don't buy music. It's the first generation where sharing MP3s illegally is normalised...and to be fair, most of them aren't aware that you're meant to pay for MP3s. |
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JK2006 |
No Harry, it's the MUSIC BUSINESS - without one, you won't have the other. And with the business side in sad decline due to the internet and the inability of the old executives to spot the direction it was going, the music side is suffering badly.
But don't blame Simon, who is doing a brilliant job in one small area of it... blame the spineless, gutless, clueless executives failing to discover and market and promote the next great talents.
You cannot knock the sales on Susan Boyle and X Factories... but you can knock the lack of sales and exposure on great new music talent of more complex (and some would say rewarding) sounds. |
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Harry Rednapp |
'My tastes have no relevance'...???!!!
says who???!!
I argue that Simon Cowells taste has no relevance - just cos it sells doesn't give it relevance...its pandering to the lowest common denominator...this is not an indictment of anyone who buys his 'product' - its just shiny and flashy and cheap and easy to find...but still rubbish
You keep using JK as an example of how its done! Of how 'what' is done?? When I was under 20, I liked a catchy melodic songs with a strong hook - so I listened to Bowie, The Beatles, Hendrix most of the Motown catalogue, etc etc as well as the Monkees and the Archies...thats what was going on - now its 'retro' or 'classic'
Simon Cowell is not the saviour of anything - the real music is out there - played by young musicians in small clubs & venues trying hard to get noticed in an industry that holds a self promoting musically vacuous tv producer as a 'role model'. (dont take that wrong Simon)
People used to say to me 'its a music BUSINESS' - i nearly fell for it - actually its a 'MUSIC business' |
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Blue Boy |
What you are doing is to express your own prejudiced and biased view. New music is purchased by the young, certainly under 20yr old, many under 16. It has always been that way and those ears like catchy melodic songs with a strong hook. Ask JK he has made a career out recognising this very simple fact.
Your tastes have no relevance. You might as well be a fan of classical music or jazz and complain why neither of these quality genres are never represented in the singles charts. |
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