And I try, and I try

[andrewducker]

I try to keep some empathy with ordinary people. And I try not to look down on people. And I try to not feel superior.

But when Will Young sells 800,000 copies of his single in one afternoon, despite being obviously completely manufactured, not having a single original idea in his head, and patently being nothing more than a method for record companies to make money, I say it's time to take off and nuke the site from orbit.

Comments

Re: Yup

[(Anonymous)]

I think your music is soulless. Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are manufactured, commercial pap to keep the masses happy. They're just cynical manipulators of the angsty teen and wannabe-teen mindset. They're just the same as the endless string of seemingly identical punky-nu-metaly bands who do songs about hating society and your parents. Nine Inch Nails aren't original, they're shamelessly ripping off Skinny Puppy and Front 242 and even Ministry. And -those- bands aren't original either. I'm sure I could say what Radiohead rip off if I cared about them.

And what do you mean by "music you like"? Do you mean music you like listening to, music you like reading the lyrics of, music you like dancing to, music you like to -own-, music you like making? They're all different.

And if you don't like manufactured bands, then you have a distinct lack of CDs in your collection that you bought from the artist on a CDR with a home-printed cover. If you're releasing music commercially, you're a commercial band. That's what it means. If you're genuinely not in it for the money, then why would you release it for sale at all?

You don't -have- to buy into commercialism unless you want to.

If you release your record on a label, -sell- it, admit who you are, do interviews, then you're after fame and money. While -I- don't think that's a bad thing, you sure seem to. Or are you just afraid that -all- music is like this, and you don't like seeing that? Music is about money and fame for most of the bands out there.

Look at the wide variety of bands who haven't admitted their real names for a few releases/tours, then all of a sudden they weren't famous enough so they "came out".

And you talked about music being original? Jesus Christ, what music -is-?

And is industrial entirely pointless as a genre when one of the essential points of the genre (originally) was to -make- music that was plastic and soulless?

Disagreement

[andrewducker]

I think your music is soulless. Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are manufactured, commercial pap to keep the masses happy.

I don't know bout Radiohead, but NIN was a project put together by Trent Reznor in his spare time, that he then found a small publisher for and made it big through touring and people liking it. Not even slightly manufactured. Sure, the music companies then push it to try and make money off of it, but he's making music that he wants to.

And what do you mean by "music you like"? Do you mean music you like listening to, music you like reading the lyrics of, music you like dancing to, music you like to -own-, music you like making?

Yes.