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- #51
- Posted: 06/11/2013 22:10
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| ColumnatedRuins wrote: | Eh, it's not that bad; I've heard worse. Expand on why you think that's the most ignorant statement you've ever read. Tbh, I too find it hard to imagine another act that will ever be as well-sold and culturally ubiquitous as The Beatles/Michael Jackson. I don't really have the words to explain why, just a gut feeling. I think because less people are buying music nowadays, combined with the internet exposing everyone to a massive variety of artists (more acts to chose from, less likelihood of one blowing up), there won't be an one group reaching the "success" (in terms of selling things and making themselves known, as Dingerbell was arguing I think) of ultra-popular artists like The Beatles.
I'm not saying any of this for sure, btw: just a feeling I have. It is admittedly very hard for me to argue this because I wasn't alive in the 60s/80s so everything I know about the Beatles' or Michael Jackson's contemporary popularity I know from books and the like. All I know is that when the Beatles came to America for the first time, they made headlines. Like front page news in newspapers. Do you see another musical act accomplishing that? |
You might say I'm pernickety (what a strange word, Internet says it's the right one, though), but I think the word "never" was really inappropriate. How much time do you think the human race has before disappearing? Thousands of years? Millions? What do rock music represent compared to the entirety of music composed by humans? How can you predict things like that?
No, I don't see a phenomenon like this happen within the next decades, or even the next centuries. But what does this represent next to the lifetime of the whole human race? Do you know what will happen in a decade? What music will sound like then? And what will sales be like? Will there even be sales anymore? Wow, so many questions, I'm sorry but it makes my post look dramatic and it's kinda cool.
There's no way we can say that there will never be any band like The Beatles. But again, and I apologize if I appeared picky (I think this word is fitting, too), what annoyed me in his post was just the use of that word.
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- Posted: 06/12/2013 23:49
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hmm going by that logic, if Kings of Leon are The Beatles of today, then does that make Justin Bieber the Frank Sinatra of today?
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- Posted: 07/31/2014 23:10
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The title of this forum makes me want to kill myself.
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- Posted: 08/01/2014 19:47
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The Beatles are The Beatles of today.
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NowhereMan
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- Posted: 08/01/2014 23:26
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The Beatles are half dead
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NowhereMan
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Charicature
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- Posted: 08/04/2014 19:42
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I'm still waiting on the facts Kiki asked us to face. She said "let's face the facts" but then followed it up with opinion and conjecture. 
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