Re: Uncommon Opinions
Again, today's music is affecting a lot of bands that I already love. They realize they have to sell out to sell at all. If they aren't infusing this pop-based sound into their music, they aren't trying hard enough to draw fans. The problem isn't a matter of: "This always happens and is nothing new," the problem is everything is starting to sound the same. It is affecting multiple genres (rock and as someone else already mentioned even country), and it is unavoidable in the mainstream culture.
I never said that it is impossible (or hard) to find decent music today, I have no problem doing that. But if you want to have something hit FM, get instantaneous multi-million views on YouTube, be nominated at the Grammy's, be featured on iTunes, appear as a follow-up track on Pandora, or anything of that accord, you have to cater to today's trend of that pop influence.
When you find that one extremely alternative song on YouTube from the late 90s and you find a top comment that says: "They don't make music like this anymore," it's because you would be hard-pressed to find one that the masses have heard since they simply aren't exposed anymore as they used to. Those bands that even played those songs before have evolved into something far different. There is absolutely nothing wrong with evolving, but in an attempt at catering toward something that will detract your original fanbase and doing it with full intent despite what it is you want to do as a band, then there is a problem.
A band like Lifehouse, for example, caught that they were trending toward this other sound and slammed on the brakes so they could find something closer to what they sounded like when they first came out. Even with that new album their sound has evolved, but that genre and feel was still there and didn't alienate their fanbase in any sort of way.
Again, today's music is affecting a lot of bands that I already love. They realize they have to sell out to sell at all. If they aren't infusing this pop-based sound into their music, they aren't trying hard enough to draw fans. The problem isn't a matter of: "This always happens and is nothing new," the problem is everything is starting to sound the same. It is affecting multiple genres (rock and as someone else already mentioned even country), and it is unavoidable in the mainstream culture.
I never said that it is impossible (or hard) to find decent music today, I have no problem doing that. But if you want to have something hit FM, get instantaneous multi-million views on YouTube, be nominated at the Grammy's, be featured on iTunes, appear as a follow-up track on Pandora, or anything of that accord, you have to cater to today's trend of that pop influence.
When you find that one extremely alternative song on YouTube from the late 90s and you find a top comment that says: "They don't make music like this anymore," it's because you would be hard-pressed to find one that the masses have heard since they simply aren't exposed anymore as they used to. Those bands that even played those songs before have evolved into something far different. There is absolutely nothing wrong with evolving, but in an attempt at catering toward something that will detract your original fanbase and doing it with full intent despite what it is you want to do as a band, then there is a problem.
A band like Lifehouse, for example, caught that they were trending toward this other sound and slammed on the brakes so they could find something closer to what they sounded like when they first came out. Even with that new album their sound has evolved, but that genre and feel was still there and didn't alienate their fanbase in any sort of way.
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