INVISIBLE ORANGES: POST ESSAY "WHY DO BANDS GET POPULAR"

METAL WEBZINE INVISIBLE ORANGES posted an editorial regarding the query  "WHY DO BANDS GET POPULAR", in the context of  art being subjective vs. social media and pressure of conformity.

DOUG MOORE's essay  "WHY DO BANDS GET POPULAR" will be his last for INVISIBLE ORANGES, MOORE is stepping down from his editorial duties as he has written and published for both the BROOKLYN VEGAN and INVISIBLE ORANGES.




FROM INVISIBLE ORANGES:
 "That collective tastes are so deeply unpredictable reflects the most beautiful parts of human mental life: the ability to surprise yourself, the capacity to learn new things, the desire to seek out experiences that you have no vocabulary to describe. Without these mysterious factors, our musical lives would carry no poetry; we be little more than rats pushing the ‘pleasure’ lever in a psychologist’s experiment every time we bought a new album."

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2014/04/why-do-bands-get-popular/

ITP V.014 EDITORS NOTE:
NPR GOOD ART IS POPULAR BECAUSE IT'S GOOD RIGHT? .......WRONG.
Really interesting article that I will have to blog about. Popularity is NOT equal to quality and neither is success.      I will say this much about social bias, if I really hate a band, or person, unless I'm mandated or forced to listen, I'm not going to like. We've all fallen for media and music PR campaigns, being on both sides of the coin, I try to judge by the music, not peer pressure or media bias. Just the smallest or equal exposure and a music sample could get ITP V.014 to promote a band, and all the peer pressure and slick PR campaigns  in the world regarding mediocre music will only get me to tell someone to fuck off. I do RESENT slick, redundant PR campaigns regarding mediocre product, it pisses me off, a lot of people fall for it, regardless of quality.  It sucks that mediocre art/music gains popularity as corporations/commercial PR enslave the sheeple.I don't mind that my personal taste isn't popular, less pressure, more intimacy. The other side of the fence, in the indie music scene, if an artist or band gains popularity, they are  bashed as some consider a certian amout of artistic sacrifice of integrity to get there, as that is questionable ("sellout). It is primarily the corperations, labels, and PR whom are responsible for medoicre product and clones. Don't be a sheeple, think for your self, think indepedently, don't be a corporate whore. For the record, I've blown off plenty of PR/social media campaigns, simply because the music and or ethics SUCKS. As they are plenty of bands/artists whom barely had a social media presence, no label and or PR, whom I've promoted (although fustrated that no one has taken them on) simply because I've adored the MUSIC, and some have gone on to success.   http://www.npr.org/2014/02/27/282939233/good-art-is-popular-because-its-good-right

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/27/282939233/good-art-is-popular-because-its-good-right
NPR GOOD ART IS POPULAR BECAUSE IT'S GOOD RIGHT? (COURTESY OF NPR "LISTEN TO THE STORY" MORNING EDITION)



http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2014/04/why-do-bands-get-popular/

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