Why do people not care about music?

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Yeah lots of people just take what is given to them. And alot of those people are many of my friends. Most of those people have called me weird for what I listen to (from The Beatles to Daft Punk) but I don't care. I do my own thing. (A massive music fan btw)

 

[BonsaiK]

It seems to me nowadays that unless a band or an artist is being shoved down someone's throat by a record label, blog, magazine, or whatever, people generally don't give a shit. Perhaps this is to blame for the state of 'modern music' nowadays. The industry decides what is to be sold, and the public laps it up without making a choice of their own. Do you agree? Do you disagree? What music do you listen to that is relatively unknown? Would you like an artist if they weren't popular? Discuss!

Take it from someone in the industry, the industry doesn't really "decide" what is sold. That's a very common misconception. We'd love to be able to do that, but we can't. Even the biggest promotional and marketing push imaginable can't sell an artist that is making music nobody likes (who reading this has East 17's fourth album? Who even knows what it's called without looking it up? And if you have it, do you regret the purchase?). What the industry does is try and work out what is likely to sell and then attempt to give people that. For every Taylor Swift there's thousands of wannabees who looked similar, acted similar, did all the same moves and got the same marketing push but still didn't make the cut and the difference is usually just that nobody really liked the shit.

How popular an artist is has no bearing on if I like it or not. However if an artist is popular with a certain segment of the population I'll assume that they've struck a chord with them somehow and therefore I should at least pay attention and keep my eye on that artist or whatever...

 

[Nouw]

I do/did care and always will. As long as Rhapsody, Coldplay, the Gorillaz and Daft Punk live.

4 very different bands eh?

 

[BlumiereBleck]

music isn't doomed, not everybody is into all of the mainstream stuff. Hell I hate most of it myself (or at least all of the recent stuff that is ;3)

I never realized some one else here has heard of them

OT: Meh some people like it some dont

 

[Dragonforce525]

I couldn't disagree more, sure there are always going to be people who only listen to what their friends or tv tells them to listen to, but you're making out as if nobody finds bands on their own, luckily for me I pretty much only listen to Power Metal, so finding bands is quite easy, I just type Power Metal on youtube and page after page is littered with 10 minute long compilations of bands, now you could argue that I'm only listening to what the uploader of the video tells me to listen to, but how the fuck else am I supposed to find new bands? Type a genre into google and cross my fingers?

 

[Ham_authority95]

People absolutely care about music. It's just that the magazines, blogs, and the pop charts give people an easier route to find stuff they like.

It's called marketing.

Also, most people aren't going out of their way to look for underground non-advertised music if they already like the stuff they have.

 

[freedomweasel]

It seems to me nowadays that unless a band or an artist is being shoved down someone's throat by a record label, blog, magazine, or whatever, people generally don't give a shit. Perhaps this is to blame for the state of 'modern music' nowadays. The industry decides what is to be sold, and the public laps it up without making a choice of their own. Do you agree? Do you disagree? What music do you listen to that is relatively unknown? Would you like an artist if they weren't popular? Discuss!

Take it from someone in the industry, the industry doesn't really "decide" what is sold. That's a very common misconception. We'd love to be able to do that, but we can't. Even the biggest promotional and marketing push imaginable can't sell an artist that is making music nobody likes (who reading this has East 17's fourth album? Who even knows what it's called without looking it up? And if you have it, do you regret the purchase?). What the industry does is try and work out what is likely to sell and then attempt to give people that. For every Taylor Swift there's thousands of wannabees who looked similar, acted similar, did all the same moves and got the same marketing push but still didn't make the cut and the difference is usually just that nobody really liked the shit.

How popular an artist is has no bearing on if I like it or not. However if an artist is popular with a certain segment of the population I'll assume that they've struck a chord with them somehow and therefore I should at least pay attention and keep my eye on that artist or whatever...

Very well put, thank you.

The "sheeple" don't just buy shit because the man tells them to. I may be made more aware of a band because of the marketing push, but if I listen and think it sucks, I won't love it just because the guy on the radio says I should. I generally have different tastes when compared to the top 40, but if there is a song on the top 40 that I do enjoy, who the hell cares?

It's the same pretentious attitude that goes with "anyone who likes COD or Halo has no taste", maybe they bought it, played and enjoyed it, and have different taste?

tl;dr: People who listen to top 40 radio have **different** taste and care about **different** music than you, not worse.

 

[Feylynn]

People will seek out their own bands.... but it's the blogs, magazines and industries that they find out about these bands through.

That's the sad part. And ultimately, they're not really deciding for themselves as the blogger has decided whether the band is worthy to write about or not, usually influenced by another blog. It's a never ending circle of copy cat! Who can honestly say that if a new band arrived that you adored and who everyone else hated, would you still like them? Probably not.

If I like music, I like the music.
If I don't like the music, I do not like the music.
That is all there is to it.

There is no 'other people' or any form of influence.
It is purely an auditory realm within my mind that invites or banishes at it's whim.

I love/hate some Anime themes.
I love/hate some black/power/symphonic metal.
I love/hate some pop.
I love/hate some alternative.
I love/hate some techno.
I love/hate some classical.
I love/hate some rap.

If we want to follow your reasoning though, since I was raised by my parents, went to school, seen society and culture, have sibling and friends to influence me, was born without my own consent into a country and character I did not choose... None of my choices are mine regardless of will because they've been forged to a fragment of all possibility by growth.

So really, the world chose the music I enjoy.

The sarcasm is in the point not the message.
Listen to the music you enjoy and let others be as receiving or deaf to the varieties of music as they wish.