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New Yeah Yeah Yeahs album Show Your Bones
JLM:
No obligation to please their fans? Wow. And you really believe that?
While it's true that they're not REQUIRED to make an album that sounds better than moose drool on shag carpets, it's generally a good idea for them to do it anyways, lest people become disenchanted and stop buying their albums, going to shows, etc. (and no, I'm not saying that's what the album sounds like. It's not terrible, just kind of bland compared to their earlier work).
"Knowing Your Audience" is the key tenet of any type of artist/writer/performer. If you ignore or alienate your audience, you may as well just keep everything hidden in a diary or sketchbook under your bed or go back to playing the basement shows at Vinnie's down the street.
EDIT: and let's not play the semantics game over the word "obligated." No one by the utmost literal definition, is obligated to do anything except breathe, eat and die.
Gryff:
I don't know about you, but I would prefer artists to create work because they are inspired to, not because they are trying to please an audience.
Maybe that's just me.
JLM:
Inspiration is a red herring to the discussion, because no work would be created without it.
NosLycn:
It's not too late for them! They can still be the best band of all time. You know how hard it is for a band to inspire me to buy a ticket to see their show (from a scalper even) or (which is even worse) to buy even ONE of their albums? This band has something, and if they do things right, they will be the best band in the world.
They just need to find a way to recover from Show Your Bones.
GMM:
Is it wrong that I think Karen O is hot?
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