12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Mus


Rather interesting info here. Says a lot about popular culture.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/12-extremely-disappointing-facts-about-popular-mus
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Funny. It puts into context all the audiophile complaints about people not paying attention to sound quality.

Re Barbra Streisand, objectively, I view her as a superior musician to acts like Pearl Jam (every song sounds the same) and Tom Petty, so I'm not sure what is so outrageous about her outselling those acts. I'm not sure why Katy Perry is inferior to Michael jackson, either.

And is Keisha even good-looking?
I wonder if today's sales numbers include MP3 sales where you do not even have to leave your home to purchase a song right after hearing it on the radio. It would give today's artists a huge advantage.
I think it says AT LEAST as much about the world population explosion as it does about popular culture. When most of the artists being compared to were at their most active (60's and 70's) the world pop was around 4B. Now it's more than twice that, and so is the music buying public. So before making such comparisons, the numbers need to be adjusted.
I have to say to this article, so?
So what? Most people only listen to radio and unless you listen to college and 99% dont then you are spoon fed the same 500 songs most your entire life in any genre, country, pop, soft adult, rock so what do guys who make dumb lists expect? Its not the publics fault they dont know better and most really like their musical crap lives just fine so you cant save people that dont want saved. Live and let live, dont bother openly talking about this at the holiday party, you will just look like a snob.