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Topic History of: Picking up from the Tipsheet thread below...
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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DJones |
There are as many musical innovators out there as ever. And some of them are (probably) quite successful in the market / niche they are working in. But everyone outside these small scenes will only hear about them by chance (or never).
Innovative business pratices: I think that all the different ways (developed since the days of sheet music) to get attention / hype a record into the charts are still possible today.
But there are (at least) three important differences to former times:
1) There is no longer one mass audience (the mainstream).
2) Attention / awareness doesn |
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fred |
I can see your point. When you consider that we've lost magazines like
Smash Hits and Melody Maker and programmes like Top Of The Pops; when the NME is nosediving along with (as far as I'm aware) Q, Mojo and Uncut whole areas of the industry are disappearing with little of substance to replace them. |
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JK2006 |
Ah Fred, the point of this thread is not value judgement on the quality or lack of it of the music but ability to make the most of it.
Simon has that but very few others have.
What the music is matters not for this discussion - it could be great classics, crap pop or country nursery rhymes. |
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fred |
But at the same time generally speaking the TV-led music that Cowell produces is utterly awful. Ok - I'll give you Leona can sing and seems to be being groomed to being the new Mariah - but I'm no fan of hers either.
Look at the names on the list:
Robson and Jerome - less relevant than Mantovani
Power Rangers - ?
Teletubbies - ?
Westlife - possibly less relevant than Robson, the Teletubbies and Power Rangers put together.
Chico - words fail me.
No-one can argue Louis, Simon etc have made a lot of money and provide some kind of entertainment but its not done music any favours at all. |
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JK2006 |
Ah Mart; my point is that key innovators find their own ways, whether or not they may reflect parts of older ideas, they are of their time.
Simon sussed very early on (Robson and Jerome, Power Rangers, Teletubbies) that TV was a great way to provoke music sales.
Others had done it before him but he saw the time was right and the unique ways of getting sales.
That's the kind of thinking that is so rare these days.
Ahmet saw different gaps in the marketplace and different ways of breaking and selling it.
So did I. |
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