>Joni said:
>
>> It is evident by all of the commercial trk id posts that AJ, dnb,
>> ect is out
>> there all around us. It's in the intro's and outros's of tv/radio shows,
>> but the same radio/tv stations never put anything of AJ, underground, dnb
>> substance on as the feature. So I guess the question is: Why hasen't the
>> rest of the world caught on? Or better yet do we even want them
>> to? Do the
>> big labels look for junk to push on the masses or do they turn what might
>> have had potential to be good in to junk? And furthermore would
>> the masses
>> REALLY be interested and appreciative of all the artists that keep us
>> moovin' ? I'm not sure how much credit to give or not to give to the
>> people.
I think a great deal of it has to do with the fact that most of this music
is instrumental, or at the very least, has a repeating vocal sample that
does or doesn't really make sense at all in the context of the song ("Right
about now...WHAT? Who is this 'Funk Soul Brother' in the first place?) And
it's clear that mainstream radio/labels want songs with verses and choruses
and hooks.
On the other hand, we have to be aware that both the mainstream and the
underground need to coexist in a symbiotic relationship with each other.
Without a mainstream, the underground would be the mainstream by default,
and without the underground there would be no element for change (i.e. many
pop songs have a dopted a hip-hop beat, without hip-hop in the first place,
what would pop music sound like today?
I don't know. Forgive the zen talk. And why is this top-40 station playing
Stereo M.C.'s "Connected" in regular rotation?
Elson
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