In just reading the article, I think it's just that Moby is out of Touch with the state of the market. His comment "Pink outsells Weezer in the States not so much because she's more popular, but because her fans are more likely to buy, as opposed to burn, her CDs."
Personally, I haven't heard anything I've liked by Weezer since 1995. (Remember that they even had a video on the Windows 95 CD?) Pink, on the other hand, has had two top 40 hits with her new album. I found her album to be creative, and have been craving purchasing a copy. At the same time, I found "18" to be rather disappointing, and think I'll pass on the purchase of this album.
Maybe record sales really are a good indication of what's good on the market. And maybe the drop in record sales altogether is not due to MP3 sharing which has become much more prohibitive with the amount of spyware going into the few trading softwares out there, but rather the fact that most music being generated for pop culture these days just doesn't have the same appeal as it once did. I think we could really use someone as creative genious for the 21st century as The Beatles and Michael Jackson were for the 20th century.
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Another iPod clone, this time from not-so-Creative! Joy! :-)
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Personally, I haven't heard anything I've liked by Weezer since 1995. (Remember that they even had a video on the Windows 95 CD?) Pink, on the other hand, has had two top 40 hits with her new album. I found her album to be creative, and have been craving purchasing a copy. At the same time, I found "18" to be rather disappointing, and think I'll pass on the purchase of this album.
Maybe record sales really are a good indication of what's good on the market. And maybe the drop in record sales altogether is not due to MP3 sharing which has become much more prohibitive with the amount of spyware going into the few trading softwares out there, but rather the fact that most music being generated for pop culture these days just doesn't have the same appeal as it once did. I think we could really use someone as creative genious for the 21st century as The Beatles and Michael Jackson were for the 20th century.