Pretty worthless argument, actually. 12 year old girls can have a very good taste in music too.
Popular music certainly does not always equal ‘inferior’ music.
Unless it’s dubstep.
Hehe, don’t want to go in specifics here, but I can’t really stand the elitist attitude of hating on everything that becomes popular simply because it has become popular.
Sometimes, it’s not about becoming popular, it’s about keeping your own musical integrity too and stay true to that, that’s a major difference.
Completely agree with you. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not supporting SHM here. They have done great stuff in the past but these last years have been pretty sad, unfortunately.
I was just talking about ‘elitism’ in general, since it is a phenomenon seen quite frequently on dj boards. I’m all for musical integrity though, no doubt!
Yeah, likewise, it was more a generic thought than really thinking about specific artist(s) here. But the matter is so subjective, who knows, I’m not exempt of being cheesy myself from time to time ^^.
i love the sellout and “popular” argument it gets so twisted
I don’t hate bands and artist’s that become popular sell 10000s of records and get in the charts as that’s everyone’s aim in music is to get your music out there and do well.
What i do hate is when bands and artist’s change there sound just to get in the charts and sell 1000’s of records and still have to cheek to say “we ain’t changed blah blah blah” and call it “progression”
This!
Quite TQ - progression of their bank balance.
Nail. Head.
the link didn’t work, but it recommended me some kind of babes section, which is fine too.
link got took down from daily star but here it is
http://www.taletela.com/news/6878/swedish-house-mafia-accuse-music-producers-of-raping-house-music
- who is axwell?
- who is the swedish house mafia and who is in it?
- filtered disco house had it’s place…
- who really cares what he thinks about anything?
So then, how do you differentiate between an artist developing and evolving in their craft from one who ‘changes’ to sell records? How do you know their motive/why they changed?
I’d be bored and disappointed with an artist who’s sound NEVER changed.
There’s change and there’s sell-out.
ummm… Axwell? why u talkin trash?
after reading the article, why is Axwell talking trash like this???
Buddy… face it… you’ve made pop (remixing Madonna - Jump), you’ve made novelty, and you’ve made filtered house disco stuff. And I’ve played most of these tracks at a bar, and it was all just fine. Don’t hate yourself now just cause you guys play stadiums, have fire-cannons at your shows and you all grow beards. Just enjoy house music and have a laugh. Obviously in 2000 you had a sense of humor. Don’t know why reading that article struck such a chord with me.
He made a big ‘filtered house disco stuff’ track called “Pull Over” that samples an Eddie Murphy live comedy skit (at 0:55 below). This screams ‘novelty’ to me (sampling comedians = novelty)
Radio 1’s definition of variety is having 20 tracks on repeat constantly + once a day something differant.