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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Great pop artists of last 15 years BUT with only had one release |
| Date | Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:02:47 -0500 |
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> From: "ROBERT SEGARINI" <segarini@rogers.com>
> Who, in your opinion, should have a career/hit/respect from the general
> public. Oh sure, they don't know their asses from an iPod, but seiously,
> who do we all talk about that REALLY is good enough to hit the target?
> No offense, but I think the kind of music we love would be better served
> if we raised the bar a bit, and actually promoted by word of mouth that
> won't embarrass us if they DO breakthrough.
Sadly, I think its a false premise. Ashlee Simpson has chart hits; am I
looking through the power pop genre for the next Ashlee Simpson? There's
really no correlation at all between hits and quality; almost all the
records that "hit the target" are marketed (with $$ behind them) to do so.
I always think about the Cloud Eleven record Orange and Green and Yellow and
Near. If that record had come out in the summer of 1968, it would be
universally hailed as a classic. But nowadays that style of music is
anachronistic in terms of chart success, and the only way you'd see a hit
off that-- to me, an insanely great record-- is if Timbaland remixed one of
the tracks as a Christina Aguilera duet.
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