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a pack of wolves:
I don't think it's strange, just like any other industry they find something that works and they produce variants. Look at mp3 players. The ipod worked so then we got the nano, then the shuffle and so on. With such an odd product to try and market effectively as music (as opposed to a wholly practical item, like a saw where in order to sell more you just need to come up with a saw that has the appearance of doing a better job) all they have to go on is what people have bought in the past so they bash most things around until they look like what's shifted units previously.
Not that any of this is a good thing mind you, for the quality of the artwork produced it's pretty dire. But I can see why they would act as they do.
Jackie Blue:
Well, I'm glad Snow Patrol got signed, because it means that someone who is by all accounts a very genuine artist has gained mainstream success. If Coldplay had to exist for that to happen, well, you have to break eggs to make the proverbial omelette.
amok:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 30 Dec 2007, 12:53 ---Well, I'm glad Snow Patrol got signed, because it means that someone who is by all accounts a very genuine artist has gained mainstream success. If Coldplay had to exist for that to happen, well, you have to break eggs to make the proverbial omelette.
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Nicely summed up what I was about to post. If Coldplay are indirectly responsible for 'Run' getting all the airtime it did then they accidentally got something right, because that is a hell of a song.
Spinless:
I don't think there is such a thing as 'indie' as you guys are discussing it.
I see what you guys are talking about as being this beach, and we're all floating just off the shore, in the water, and the water is 'indie' and the beach is what you guys are calling the 'mainstream'. Yeah, right now you're riding this wave. Eventually, it's gonna hit the shore. But by that point, there's this other wave right behind it that hasn't quite made it yet. We're constantly floating in this ocean, enjoying the waves that go past us and watching them hit the shore.
Indie will never be the mainstream, because there's always another wave coming.
Jackie Blue:
There's no such thing as "indie" because it's not a stylistic genre. Period. Just like "alternative" never was.
More specific descriptors like "grunge" were genres. "Indie" is not and never has been a genre. It's a marketing label.
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