glenphelan (glenphelan@atkins-china.com.hk)
Sat, 20 Feb 99 11:10:08 +0800
'TOO PRODUCED' IS ONE WAY TO EXPLAIN COMMERCIAL BUT I THINK WHAT PEOPLE ARE
GETTING AT IS ARTISTS WHO PURPOSEFULLY 'WATERDOWN' THEIR MUSIC TO APPEAL TO A
WIDER AUDIENCE AND SO COMPRIMISING THEIR ORIGINAL STYLE. WHETHER THIS WATERING
DOWN IS FROM RECORD COMPANY PRESSURE TO SELL UNITS OR NOT, I DO NOT KNOW. I HATE
TO SEE ARTISTS KNOCK OUT THE WEAK SECOND, THIRD ALBUMS - BUT SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY
THE BILLS!
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Subject: Re: Les Nubians / Snooze
Author: Erik Gaderlund <erikg@macconnect.com>
Date: 2/19/99 2:50 PM
>Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:28:01 -0800
>From: John BEPPU <beppu@taurus.oac.uci.edu>
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: Les Nubians / Snooze
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>[ date ] 1999/02/19 | Friday | 11:59 AM
>[ author ] De Angela Duff (de@nettmedia.com)
>
>/mark/
>> >I have their album and I'm a sucker for French vocals (especially
>> >FEMALE French vocals), but I'm sorry to say I found the album a
>> >little too slick/commercial for my tastes.
>
>/de angela/
>> I second this -- very commercial.
>
> I find it ironic that you two consider Les Nubians to be too
> commercial (whatever that means). During the interview, they
> leveled a similar criticism toward MC Solaar's more recent
> works. "Too pop," they said although they really liked his
> earlier works. Anyway, being able to say something like that
> would imply to me that they do not consider themselves to be
> 'commercial'.
>
> I really don't like this criticism no matter who says it. It
> doesn't tell me in musical terms what was wrong. Just what
> does it mean to sound 'commercial'?
>
It means you've got a better selling record than they do. Ok, not really,
but, it seems to be one source of criticism. I tend to refer to albums as
too 'produced' meaning to slick a sound. But, that is also a rather
ambigious term.
erik g
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