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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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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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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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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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Mainstream Survivors
In observance of the 2002 surge of new artists lined up to take their Grammy’s, it’s amazing how few have remained. Papa Roach, Stone Sour, Green Day, Breaking Benjamin, and too many others do not make releases as often as rap and R&B artists. Where has rock music gone, and how will its survivors live [...]
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