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You are more likely to buy the music you hear every day aka what's pumping out the radio. Not all of the population is going to go out of their way to search for new music online. And even those that do like us, at best we listen to a song once and have to decide whether we like it enough to keep it after one listen. Versus hearing it play over and over again and getting the tune stuck in your head.
Quote from: BG Rapsodie on April 25, 2012, 11:05:22 AMYou are more likely to buy the music you hear every day aka what's pumping out the radio. Not all of the population is going to go out of their way to search for new music online. And even those that do like us, at best we listen to a song once and have to decide whether we like it enough to keep it after one listen. Versus hearing it play over and over again and getting the tune stuck in your head. This is a chicken/egg question. Bottom line is if people would have better taste we'd all benefit. Which yes, would take initiative and thought on the part of customers.
Quote from: Russell Bell on April 27, 2012, 11:13:37 PMQuote from: BG Rapsodie on April 25, 2012, 11:05:22 AMYou are more likely to buy the music you hear every day aka what's pumping out the radio. Not all of the population is going to go out of their way to search for new music online. And even those that do like us, at best we listen to a song once and have to decide whether we like it enough to keep it after one listen. Versus hearing it play over and over again and getting the tune stuck in your head. This is a chicken/egg question. Bottom line is if people would have better taste we'd all benefit. Which yes, would take initiative and thought on the part of customers.The reality is people have the taste of what is fed to them. Take today's mainstream hip hop audience and plop them in the 80s or 90s, they'd still love whatever's hot. You can't like a type of music you aren't exposed to.
Quote from: BG Rapsodie on April 27, 2012, 11:18:31 PMQuote from: Russell Bell on April 27, 2012, 11:13:37 PMQuote from: BG Rapsodie on April 25, 2012, 11:05:22 AMYou are more likely to buy the music you hear every day aka what's pumping out the radio. Not all of the population is going to go out of their way to search for new music online. And even those that do like us, at best we listen to a song once and have to decide whether we like it enough to keep it after one listen. Versus hearing it play over and over again and getting the tune stuck in your head. This is a chicken/egg question. Bottom line is if people would have better taste we'd all benefit. Which yes, would take initiative and thought on the part of customers.The reality is people have the taste of what is fed to them. Take today's mainstream hip hop audience and plop them in the 80s or 90s, they'd still love whatever's hot. You can't like a type of music you aren't exposed to.Of course you cant like music you arent exposed to. But how you are exposed to music is up to the listener. For example, will you sit and watch mtv, or fuse tv, or vh1, or vh1 classic, or youtube or the radio, or go to a record shop, or scower the internet. Everyone has choices.
Well then you are proving my point. If you like what you hear, then people who push this music have successfully marketed their product to someone who would buy and or like it. If someone doesnt like something, then hearing it over and over shouldnt make you like it more, if anything, it should make you dislike it even more.
Quote from: Russell Bell on April 28, 2012, 01:52:12 PMWell then you are proving my point. If you like what you hear, then people who push this music have successfully marketed their product to someone who would buy and or like it. If someone doesnt like something, then hearing it over and over shouldnt make you like it more, if anything, it should make you dislike it even more.Wrong. People change opinion all the time. Hence the phrase "It grows on you." People can and are brainwashed by what they are exposed to.The internet may be all good, but putting a song online isn't exposure when there's millions of songs online. How many people are you reaching by putting a file up on rapidshare? Nothing in comparison to a song getting a couple few on the radio. You're blind if you think the level of exposure is even remotely the same.
Quote from: BG Rapsodie on April 28, 2012, 04:45:26 PMQuote from: Russell Bell on April 28, 2012, 01:52:12 PMWell then you are proving my point. If you like what you hear, then people who push this music have successfully marketed their product to someone who would buy and or like it. If someone doesnt like something, then hearing it over and over shouldnt make you like it more, if anything, it should make you dislike it even more.Wrong. People change opinion all the time. Hence the phrase "It grows on you." People can and are brainwashed by what they are exposed to.The internet may be all good, but putting a song online isn't exposure when there's millions of songs online. How many people are you reaching by putting a file up on rapidshare? Nothing in comparison to a song getting a couple few on the radio. You're blind if you think the level of exposure is even remotely the same.I highly doubt that just because i hear a lady gaga song i clearly dislike at the gym, at some club, and in someones car on the radio that it will "grow on me". Then again, i do not have applesauce-like mush for a brain. But, people like this kind of music so it sells. Therefore, executives dish it out. Theres no actual hypnotic qualities in the bitch's music that force people to buy it.
people will always hate on present hip hop. this year has had releases from Big K.R.I.T., THEESatisfaction, ScHoolboy Q, Quakers, Brother Ali, Action Bronson, Gangrene, Wiz Khalifa, Saigon, Rick Ross, T.I., Reks, Homeboy Sandman & Chip That Ripper and its not even May. No idea how that can be a bad year in hip hop.
Quote from: Russell Bell on April 28, 2012, 04:56:34 PMQuote from: BG Rapsodie on April 28, 2012, 04:45:26 PMQuote from: Russell Bell on April 28, 2012, 01:52:12 PMWell then you are proving my point. If you like what you hear, then people who push this music have successfully marketed their product to someone who would buy and or like it. If someone doesnt like something, then hearing it over and over shouldnt make you like it more, if anything, it should make you dislike it even more.Wrong. People change opinion all the time. Hence the phrase "It grows on you." People can and are brainwashed by what they are exposed to.The internet may be all good, but putting a song online isn't exposure when there's millions of songs online. How many people are you reaching by putting a file up on rapidshare? Nothing in comparison to a song getting a couple few on the radio. You're blind if you think the level of exposure is even remotely the same.I highly doubt that just because i hear a lady gaga song i clearly dislike at the gym, at some club, and in someones car on the radio that it will "grow on me". Then again, i do not have applesauce-like mush for a brain. But, people like this kind of music so it sells. Therefore, executives dish it out. Theres no actual hypnotic qualities in the bitch's music that force people to buy it.People like this music because its what they're exposed to. It's a psychological response. If you can't understand that then read up on the subject. I know there's several books written about it.