>but still, I have loads more respect for the bottom end
> of the AJers than any Pop Performer.
My point about N'Sync is not really to focus on the cute guys who make up
the group. Rather, it's the producers who sign on to create the music.
I think alot of people (who don't study the liner notes) would be surprised
to see the inter-relationships between some underground music they think of
as being "art" and the commercial tripe they dismiss as being "for the
masses."
For instance, I was at a session once with a real tasty funk-jazz guitar
player / Pro Tooler who produced tracks for Moonshine under the title "Sound
Assembly." (Check "Stoned Again" from the Acid Jazz Test part 2, for
instance.) Anyway, last I saw the guy he was signed on to poprock outfit
Buckcherry, which is about as far away from AJ as you can get. What happened
(other than cash and groupies?)
Likewise, William Orbit, Les Rhythms Digitales, Jay Dee, BT, etc. are all
guys who had serious "street cred" as innovative producers, but they've all
taken the big paychecks and worked with various monster artists.
Do they cease to be artists when they start getting paid?
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