Apart from making money, what is the point of corporate pop music anyway?

[Deja Q]

There's obviously no soul in the music.

Just an image and a tune that a toddler or even MC Hammer could easily reproduce.


:shrug:

[arcane1]

1. to keep real artists off the airwaves...

and out of the record stores

[HEAVYHEART]

2. What he said

:grr:

[supernova]

3. It eliminates risk

One of the chief aims of business is to eliminate risk. They like predictability, stability, and sameness. That way they know they can depend on a certain ROI. A stable of corporately-controlled "artists" is much more attractive from a business POV, because it eliminates the need to factor in the spontaneity of finding true artists to develop and promote.

[unblock]

4. the music business is a hammer to keep you pegs in your holes

funk pop a roll beats up my soul
oozing like napalm from the speakers and grill
of your radio
into the mouths of babes
and across the backs of its willing slaves

funk pop a roll consumes you whole
gulping in your opium so copiously from a disco
everything you eat is waste
but swallowing is easy when it has no taste

they can fix you rabbits up
with your musical feed
they can fix you rabbits up
big money selling you stuff that you really do not need

they can fix you rabbits up
with your musical feed
they can fix you rabbits up
big money selling you stuff that you really do not need

funk pop a roll for fish in shoals
music by the yard for the children they keep
like poseable dolls
the young to them are mistakes
who only want bread but they're force-fed cake

funk pop a roll the only goal
the music business is a hammer to keep
you pegs in your holes

but please don't listen to me

i've already been poisoned by this industry

funk pop a roll beats up my soul

[opiate69]

5. They're Demons, set loose on the earth...

... to lower our standards!

[Bok_Tukalo]

6. The best way to manufacture celebrity

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