This will sadden you
12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music.
Sure, most of it is attributed to the ease with which we can buy music from Amazon or iTunes. But still.
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December 8th, 2011 at 10:20 am
Pretty much all the Beatles comparisons are because they weren’t on iTunes until very recently.
December 8th, 2011 at 10:39 am
Never understood why people get so teary-eyed over the Beatles. They were a boy-band who made good. They weren’t any better than the ones who came later.
And Popular is NOT equal to good.
In the 1990s, the Ford Taurus and the Honda Accord fought it out for the “best-selling” car in America. Did that make them the best? World-wide the most popular car was the Ford Focus. Didn’t mean it was better than a Morgan, or Lambo, or Ferrari, or any other car.
And what is the most popular TV show? American Idol or Survivor or some other drek?
And feeling bad that Katy Perry ties Michael Jackson? I remember people thought it was sad the MJ held the record, over oh, anybody else.
December 8th, 2011 at 10:44 am
+1 There are people who will spend all day watching a bunch of near-identical fiberglass cars drive in an oval.
Mass popularity is really more of a question about area under the bell curve, and remember that 50% of all people are of below average intelligence.
And that’s not counting kids who may grow up to be smart, but don’t know any better yet.
December 8th, 2011 at 11:03 am
Fiberglass? Dude.
December 8th, 2011 at 11:27 am
I’m seeing “People like to look at ladies with few clothes on instead of geeky brits” as most of those.
December 8th, 2011 at 11:43 am
Part of it is the ease of buying now, part is a much larger population of buyers.
ZD’s comment about the Beatles is the most ridiculous assertion about music I’ve heard lately.
December 8th, 2011 at 11:45 am
I can’t believe TLC is not on the list.
December 8th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I’ve heard so much Beatles music it’s become tiresome and repetetive, perhaps because they copied their early licks from other R&B jockeys – the fact that 13-year old girls swept them to market share can’t be ignored and the “genius” of John Lennon is a questionable self-assertion.
December 8th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
One of the earliest, and, for me, the hardest, revelations that had to knock twice before I answered:
Popular entertainments are a corporate product.
I know, I know, some of it is just so gol-darned fresh and all, it sounds like your buds just thrashed it out in your dad’s garage, but, taint. Not now, not in the last 40-some years, maybe never.
December 8th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
List doesn’t bother me
How many people cite Creed as an influence compared to Hendix or can name more than one Creed song.
You think anyone will remember who Rhianna is in 10,20,30,40 yrs like the do Zepplin.
As for the Beatles always thought they were overrated (Stones all the Way)but I bet the Black Eyed Pea’s and Flo Rida (who I never even herd of) won’t be remembered half as long.
Good for Katie Perry Michael Jackson was not some musical genius and any good he did was wiped out by his general looniness and pedophilia.
Bob Marley overrated.
ETC…
December 8th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Zendo, I hate to tell you this, but you’re just wrong. Honestly, you should be forced to live in Africa for that kind of bullshit.*
And fiberglass? WTF, man? I thought you were smart.
And i thought Drt was smarter, too.
I don’t like the stones cause Jagger has weirded me out since I was a kid.
*I’m only half kidding.
December 8th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
In seriousness, they’re intentionally vague, I think. There are a lot of different charts. R&B (which I contend is dead), Rock, College, whatever. All of Rihanna’s #1s might all be on the R&B chart. I would hope that Hard Rock fans would club her in the head like a baby seal.
Also remember that with new tech, everyone is basically their own radio station. The radio isn’t quite a thing of the past, but I bet it’s listened to more for talk shows and traffic than music.
Add to that and most of these newer “artists'” complete albums really aren’t bought in whole anymore, but sold track by track, also skews numbers. That causes the RIAA to have fits, so I don’t have a problem with it.