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1st off, I thought Black SUCKED...
Load and Reload were defnitely much better...
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These are personal opinions.
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A radio station decides what to play based on what their listeners want to hear
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This is simply not true. Radio stations have agreements with record labels. These labels pay the stations for a certain amount of play time. As an example: You own a radio station, You are offered an agreement with a group of labels (Elektra/Asylum included), They will supply you with Promo CD's, concert tickets, posters, x,xxx,xxx amount of dollars, etc. You agree to give new releases of a specific format certain play time. A few weeks before St. Anger is to be released you recieve promo discs and instructions to play track 3, 6 times a day for 2 weeks. Track 5, 4 times a day for 2 weeks etc. You are required to give away promotional copies of the album, etc.
This is to generate sales of the album. This is how they advertise. Yes radio stations play songs based on requests, but new material is distibuted through the labels based on agreements. Have you ever got sick of a song because it was overplayed?
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The music was more friendly for the average listener, people liked it, so the radio stations played it... Thats the way the music game works..
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Nope wrong again. Although this is a democracy there are a lot of things "the people" will not and can not control. Money talks. Even if the people hate it the radio stations are obligated by contractual agreements to follow the guidelines that the labels set for the particular piece of music.
This is why artists try to get signed by the biggest labels. The bigger the label the more push on sales = $$$.
On the other end of the scale sometimes good music can make a small label a big sucess. <---- Very Rare.
Unfortunatley artist value is usually second to pocket value.
Another point. Americans are very trendy people. They thrive on the next "thing". Example: Vanilla Ice, Mullets, Bell Bottoms. What was once
popular looses its luster with time.
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Thats a bit shortsighted... Thats like saying Bill Gates shouldnt try to improve on the GUI of windows because thats getting away from the essence of DOS, which made him in the 1st place...
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The essence of DOS is in Windows. DOS is Disk Operating System. Its a piece of software that manages the critical operation of a PC. Some examples are:
MS-DOS
Unix
Linux
OS/2
Windows
What Gates did was excellent. He made PC operation easy. Now all people can fully take advantage of all the benifits that computers offer. They way he brought the Graphical User Interface (GUI) together was briliant. Now with the click of a button you are giving the PC command line instructions. He has in NO way strayed from the essence of DOS.
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So, to NOT be a sellout, what you are saying is that you pick a select group of people. then you only make music that THEY like, you never try to draw in new people, you never try to improve your music so that other people will like it..
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That is not what I'm saying. What I am suggesting is that you stay pure. Do not change your values for the sake of money. Maintain your integrity. Be yourself. If people don't like you for who you are thats ok. Variety is ok. I didn't suggest you select your audience, but that is what Metallica is doing. They are selecting the Pop crowd. It's a bigger crowd with more dollars involved. They are changing their style to suit a different audience. $$$.
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Theres alot of 1 hit wonder bands that fill that requirement.
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Jimmie Hendrix was a one-hit-wonder!
Some things move me further than others. I feel I have spent to much time on this topic especially considering it is all personal opinion and not fact.
Did they sell out or not?
I feel cheated. But thats just my opinion. I'm not asking you to agree with me. A simple "thats not how I feel" would have worked.
I hope that no hard feelings come of this.
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What a sellout means to me
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"ME" being the key word.