Has pop music not changed since the eighties?

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  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19753162#p19753162]PBlakeney[/url] wrote:
    I also think that supply is outstripping demand.

    Quite. For good or ill Radio One and record companies sifted through the stuff out there and decided what we would hear. Mike Scott of the Waterboys was interviewed this year and was lamenting the loss of good A & R men in the music business, people who would guide artists and help them develop and tell them which of their new songs was crap and which could be hits. Good producers did that too. Quincy Jones famously rejected half the material for Thriller, so MichaelJackson went away and came back with a new set of songs includin Billy Jean and Beat It

    Nowadays people can get famous working on stuff at home via u-tube, so if a record company shows any interests, they are too late to demand the artist change their style, even if it would help the artist in the long run.
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    I blame all the people who buy LOI music.

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