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sad fact

Comment comment by Anonymous on 30 June 2006

The sad fact is that it's called pop music because it's popular. All of this podcast stuff may let some people find the stuff they want, but the vast majority LIKE pop music. These companies have spent a lot of money figuring out what people will buy and pop music is it. Nobody admits to liking the corporation-constructed boy band or teen idol, but everyone gets caught humming the tune.

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RE: sad fact by Brandon :: NR9

You miss the fact that there is a lot of music out there under the "pop" genre umbrella that isn't popular at all. Much of this is due to the monopoly record companies have on publicity; if people don't know about a band, they can't buy their stuff, no matter how much they would have liked to. The Internet stands to change this by allowing individuals to find music on their own without depending on the band being popular enough to warrant a distribution to their neck of the woods.

eMusic is a perfect example - one that I have used to discover many artists on the Indie Rock scene that have probably never been through Houston in concert and don't have CDs at Best Buy (not that I'd want to spend $10 to buy an album there, anyway).

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