angedella isafella (notmusic@hotmail.com)
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 15:08:24 GMT
dear list: I read about this unda ?over-ground debate in the recent source.
The guy from the roots called Jay-z and Dmx(/) commercial as hell. Bullshit!
Dmx was the darkest weirdest he-man no girls allowed shit to hit in years.
because it crosses over and sell hes mainstream
and the Roots are artist? Bulljewels! The Ropots are the smoother and more
soothing. Plus it seems that the Roots' audience is white College kids and
"backpackers".Which is fine until you start doing realness checks on other
people. If real ="core audience"appeal and vaguely inscrutable/scary. its
gotta be DMX over the roots/. I like em both.
>
>I never agreed with the idea that more people being into a band
>automatically makes the band less credible or worthwhile. I think that
>attitude also manifests itself with deejays who cover up the labels on
>their
>records so no one else can get them, with store buyers who buy just enough
>copies of certain records for them and their homies but not enough for the
>average customer to get one, and deejays who don't play records that "break
>out" or crossover. Diss a band because they suck not because they sell a
>100,000 records. I think bands like Brand New Heavies, Incognito,
>Jamiroquai, etc are worth discussing. Personally I think the new Jamiroquai
>record is very mediocre but I base that on the record and not on the fact
>that they are know mega-stars. I would love for the bands I like to get
>famous and make a lot of money, lord knows they deserve it. So everyone go
>out and buy Estereo if you haven't already :> or Visit Venus or Sternklang.
>
>
>
>Dirk van den Heuvel (dirkv@groovedis.com)
>Groove Distribution
>www.groovedis.com
>Your Guide To The Underground
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: debora2 [mailto:debora2@robotek.ru]
>Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 2:25 PM
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: Why not Jamiroquai?
>
>
> > Because Jamiroquai is mainstream now and we hate everything that's
>mainstream
> > and like to pick on little tykes who just suddenly discovered Jamiroquai
>on MTV
> > because we like to show them we're much cooler than them.
> >
> > <said somewhat sarcastically>
> >
> > Elson
>
>That's really funny. You mean that music is good when less than 10000
>people listen it?
>And when there are 10001 this music becomes dirty mainstrean? I understand
>-
>you were
>talking sarcastically - but as we say in Russia - "every joke has a part of
>joke".
>
>
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