So going with that rationale, a band ceases to have artistic value once they reach mass media acceptance? In your view, "real" music can only be made for small regionalized audiences or "people in the know"? What about the the Beatles, they were widely accepted but nobody can dispute their influence?
It seems that the whole "starving artist" purist aesthetic is really quite elitist--only "people in the know" know what "real music" should be.
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Originally posted by [Labret]
Its all a little too contrived for me.
Every member of the band is just a little too geek chic to me. Like fucking Weezer. Those fucking ass rangers.
The white striped turned down a 1 million dollar offer from the Gap to do one of those horrid Gap commercials. You know when the Gap wants you its all over.
Its too bad, the white stripes were a good novelty act. A 2 person band that just tears shit up. But now MTV has them, the Gap wants them, and pretty soon every store in the mall will be selling white stripes shit. Its over, they are done.
Look what happened to At The Drive In. Damn good band with some catchy tunes... raped into oblivion.
When fratboys and 16 year old girls like it... its all over.
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