In Reply to: I hoping that people get so fed up with crap posted by jusbe on September 23, 2015 at 00:56:12:
Someone recently told me he was dumbfounded that rap music has remained popular..... I told him, as long as the network media touts how "great" something is, it will remain popular indefinitely..... It can be something even more hideous, it doesn't matter. (In social media, people take pride in their "rapping"..... Including a lot of people I like.... This is a real-life Emperor's New Clothes if there ever was one.)
Entertainment is closely related to politics..... People tend to believe consensus, whether real or contrived by the media. A lot of the garbage we hear is popular not because it sounds nice to the masses, but because the masses have been conditioned to believe if consensus likes it, it just *has* to be good. But as I stated many times, the popularity is being seeded by media execs, not consumers hearing it and liking it. And as I stated elsewhere, this was a shift in entertainment that took place around 1969. (I think the orchestral concerts off being taken off the air and Westerns being taken off the air is NOT a coincidence. I truly believe this was the start of a plan by the media to shape opinion, rather than merely reflect it.)
And like politics, what the entertainment community needs is its own version of Donald Trump..... Calling out the phonies for who they are, and getting real music back in the mainstream.
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