Archive for June, 2008
Pieces of the Industry
When taking a look at the fluctuations of music in sales, popularity, and gains and losses, people are being more and more swept away by how it fits into their lives. The triangle of music, technology, advertising is gaining a power over society that is fairly predictable, and logically so.
The more you can use something, [...]
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Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs seems to be a favorite game in today’s music industry that goes on almost too much for fans to keep up with who won the game. In reality, this analogy closely applies to a lot of popular music, making fans question what really is “popular.” Does music get to be popular if it [...]
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What’s That Sound?
Have you ever heard a song on the radio or shopping in a store that you can’t quite classify as pop, punk, or R&B? Avril Lavigne was one of the first artists I heard who had that kind of universal quality to her music. As she made a song a little over a year ago [...]
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What About the Music?
Music is one of those universal things in life that can present ideas, feelings, and moods in ways that change how people think and feel on a daily basis without acknowledging it. After being immersed in pop music for the first ten years of my life, I grew out of it and became attracted to [...]
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Battles of the Sexes
In review of today’s music, I can’t help noticing how dominantly male mainstream music currently is. Chris Cagle, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, John Mayer, and a long list of male rappers make up over 80 percent of all popular music. The few remaining female artists are almost all solo, except for Danity Kane and the [...]
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Turn of Events
Since controversy seems to bring positive or negative attention to anyone popular enough to deserve it, 50 Cent and Kanye West have taken advantage of this in the past. I can still clearly recall reading 50 Cent’s famous line “I got shot 9 times” in 3 different magazine sources…and I don’t read magazines too much!
The [...]
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Billboard Rules
With Lil Wayne and Static Major at #1 of the Billboard for yet another week, and Josh Turner and Trisha Yearwood at rock bottom #100, music fans find themselves looking at a mirror reflecting a scattered industry with every other hit seeming to be rap or R&B.
Although the Billboard 100 is not looked at so [...]
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A Mainstream Future
Competition in the music industry seems to be a little too cluttered to appreciate everyone’s voices, but is slowly settling into comfort as it welcomes new arrivals. There might be some resentment for artists who worked over a decade to get the notice equivalent to what American Idol facilitates for artists who are basically fresh [...]
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Your Music Industry
Maybe the lack of direct information from a huge music resource like MTV will actually hold the attention of music fans rather than give them a heads up on featured groups. If people are aware of too much happening with their favorite artists, the music industry might lose its element of amazing audiences…Oh no! Instead [...]
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Staying With It
This week’s top 10 on the Billboard 100 features Usher, Mariah Carey, Lil Wayne, Danity Kane, Rihanna, Jordin Sparks, and Madonna among others. How unpredictable is it that music devotees would find this collection of artists on the same billboard when a fair number of them faded out of the music scene for so long? [...]
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