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Originally Posted by tinka69
This may sound very generic and shallow but maybe if musicians decided to actually concentrate on producing some decent music they wouldn't have this problem?
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Not generic and shallow, just unrealistic. Musical quality and success have never gone hand in hand as a whole in an industry, so producing "decent music" won't solve anyone's problem. The music business is a business, promotion and marketing are more important than the product itself for it's success, just like the food business(McDonalds is neither quality nor cheap, hell the crap kills your health, yet people buy it en masse, why? Marketing) or the clothing business or the film business(The Transformers movies and Twilight movies were big successes...) or any other business. The succesful products
can be the good ones, but the important aspect is always how it is marketed and if it can be marketed well. It was the same in the 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s...the stuff with the most success was anything from awful to good(rarely great), but always marketable.