Homogenized Music

Mansing writes "The connections between broadcast radio and music industry are well known. In the old days, payola was the method to increase a song's (or album's) exposure. But now, the same "free market" corporate music that infects the music industry is also infecting the broadcast radio industry as well. What makes the article so informative is not the business angles, but how business has changed what is broadcast. Seeing the parallels between the recording industry's force fed music and Clear Channel's "nothing is left to whim or chance" programming, I now understand how hard it is for any non-corporate sanctioned music to become widely heard."

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You are just jealous

[PhysicsGenius]

Is anybody complaining that Renaissance painting shows "too many fat, naked women"? No, we call it great art. Keep in mind that it was popular at the time. People liked it.

The radio stations play what people listen to. Britney and N'Sync are good musicians playing good music. Just because they are popular with the hoi polloi doesn't make them crap. And I think they would resent your implication that they are "corporate"--all popular musicians started off unpopular and on the fringe. They made it through hard work to their art and deserve recognition of that fact.