Quote: (01-19-2018 04:39 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:
The simplicity of pop music adequately summarized in this one clip :
A comment on that youtube video said the fat guy in the middle is now a woman. I didn't think they were serious, but apparently he's a transgender now.
Hell, he wasn't even good looking as guy - how is this supposed to be an improvement? I'd have expected him to come out as a gorilla, not a woman.
But as for the music, yeah, it's not only focus tested now, it's engineered before it even gets made. The book The Song Machine explains it all in depressing detail. Boomer artists like Jimmy Buffet were able to raise their cut of an album sale from $3 to $6 bucks, making them millions. Nowadays no artist has anywhere near that kind of control, not to mention that nobody buys albums anymore.