Is Mainstream Bad?

Toxic1

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But I think overall music in this world is just going downhill. I mean, only so many territories of music can be covered. So what's next, country-screamo?
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I don't think that's true of the indie music world. Lots of different stuff going on and boundary pushing.

 
Fort_Underground

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Indie really isn't so much boundry pushing. Whenever you get an Indie cd, you know what to expect. However there is no mainstream Indie, it all is unique. So in a way you can say indie really isn't maintream. But in my opinon maintream is neither good nor bad. Mainstream changes a band sound, for better or worse. Really there are 2 sounds to a band, before maintream and after mainstream. Take Incubs, my favorite band, for example. If you listen to Fungus Amungus, and then A Crow Left of the Muder, your gonna hear 2 completly different sounds. I myself wish Incubus wouldn't be so mainstream, and go back to what they were doing on Make Yourself and S.C.I.E.N.C.E. In the end mainstream brings bands fame and notarity, but only for so long.
 
Hybrid Soldier

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Indie really isn't so much boundry pushing. Whenever you get an Indie cd' date=' you know what to expect. However there is no mainstream Indie, it all is unique. So in a way you can say indie really isn't maintream. But in my opinon maintream is neither good nor bad. Mainstream changes a band sound, for better or worse. Really there are 2 sounds to a band, before maintream and after mainstream. Take Incubs, my favorite band, for example. If you listen to Fungus Amungus, and then A Crow Left of the Muder, your gonna hear 2 completly different sounds. I myself wish Incubus wouldn't be so mainstream, and go back to what they were doing on Make Yourself and S.C.I.E.N.C.E. In the end mainstream brings bands fame and notarity, but only for so long.[/quote']indie just means independent, not neccessarily indie rock
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azemkamikaze03

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alternative rock is pretty unique aswell indie rock is just mainly used as a classifaction for bands who havent hit it big yet but have a unique(which usually gets copied) and popular sound
 
Hybrid Soldier

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alternative rock is pretty unique aswell indie rock is just mainly used as a classifaction for bands who havent hit it big yet but have a unique(which usually gets copied) and popular sound
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but indie is actually a genre, one that (dont uote me on this, as im not sure) franz ferdinand falls into

 
Clogz

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Mainstream has its redeeming points...the problem is that music companies are out to make money now, and they don't a **** about the artist. they want someone they can manipulate....and if they can't do that they will keep them out of the business.

btw....the greatest example of a sell-out is GREEN DAY. They have completely sold out. they are nothing now....they were so great in the ninities, because they made good music and that was what they about - the music.

Now, they are all about thier ******* 'American idiot' image, and style, and thier music changed. No doubt they sold out. Remember the video for "When I come Around"? Now ******* look at them. Perfectly groomed hair and ******* matching clothes?! Bleh.

Mainstream must die, because it ruins bands.

 
acdcrules04

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Finally! Some one who thinks the way I do about Green Day! Everyone I knows idolizes them, they suck now. I love basketcase, when I come around, all the old stuff! There music is so simple now, it's just an image. Crappy, simple riffs, no creative bass, and standard drums. Bleh. I turn the radio off everytime I hear a song from American Idiot. Some one shoot me.
 
Blaze

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Well' date=' this has kind of puzzled me alot of people have issues with mainstream rock and **** and claim bands sellout...ie AFI, Greenday, 10 yrs, etc. I mean I don't see how they've sold out...even if you don't like their music they still produce legit music versus the rap mainstream where rappers like Eminem have sold out where now all he does is make weird sounds and bawks like a chicken and gets a check. I hate when people say bands have sold out just becuase they get popular and it kind of puzzles me. Please explain to me what you think mainstream is and what selling out is...becuase to me it sounds like the minute a band gets to famous they are sold out[/quote']You get puzzled because you're a d-d-d-deee

You think Greenday is not a sellout but you're talkin **** about Eminem? Seriously don't be so ignorant you dumb rocker.

Mainstream is not usually bad, for example, Metallica. They used to be mainstream metal because of their album sells. But we all know (the only reason you wouldn't know is if you're a "d-d-d-deee") that Metallica sold a lot because of their great music.
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Lenneh

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So essentailly if someone only listens to mainstream do they have bad taste?
Becuase if the majoirty of mainstream is bad music then essentially you are saying they have bad taste.

Just asking.
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No, not quite.

Because some people think mainstream is good, some people think it sucks, and some people don't give a **** :p

If you were talking to me >_>

 
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People that listen to **** mainstream have bad taste, those that listen to the good stuff in the mainstream have good taste thats widley avalible, so good on em lol.

Its hard to strike up an argument as the British mainstream is better then the American one.

 
Toxic1

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Indie really isn't so much boundry pushing. Whenever you get an Indie cd' date=' you know what to expect. [/quote']
Oh.......you have no idea. That statement is absolute hogwash.
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Clogz

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Oh.......you have no idea. That statement is absolute hogwash.
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I agree. Listening to indie music is like getting a breath of fresh air. Its like eating fast food for three days straight and then having a healthy home-cooked meal...its amazing! :thumbsup:

 
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djwakka

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Indie is in most cases, different and unique. I don't know how a person can put indie and predictable in the same sentence.
 
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Stenners

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Though the are many indie bands that sound similar they dont ALL sound the same and in many cases they have a unique sound, listen to an indie compilation then listen to a Hard Rock, Pop or Metal compilation and just listen to the vast difference in variety.
 
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azemkamikaze03

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You get puzzled because you're a d-d-d-deeeYou think Greenday is not a sellout but you're talkin **** about Eminem? Seriously don't be so ignorant you dumb rocker.

Mainstream is not usually bad, for example, Metallica. They used to be mainstream metal because of their album sells. But we all know (the only reason you wouldn't know is if you're a "d-d-d-deee") that Metallica sold a lot because of their great music.
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Let us first get some things straight my barbaric friend.

Seriously don't be so ignorant you dumb rocker.
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Um. I'm not a rocker. I'm a rap fiend. Emienem has sold out becuase did you perhaps watch the BET awards where he freestyled on Touch It? And it sucked. Badly. Becuase all he did was mumble. On the anger management mixtape ... tight as beat...******* trashy lyrics. I think I know when a rapper falls off and just starts making wack *** lyrics for the money.


Dumb rocker.

You think Greenday is not a sellout but you're talkin **** about Eminem?
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Well golly gee. Maybe I do? What are you gunna do E-Slap me?

Lets get serious here...Blaze is it? Um Greenday just switched up style a bit throws awesome concerts lyrics are still pretty fresh have been around for a while so if they start to falter I'll give them the benifet of the doubt. So what they got extremely popular and softened up from their more rebellious past. People mature. They get old. I hate to brake it to you blaze but it happens.

Let's take a five minute break so you can take some deep breaths and think about it. It's alot to take in. I know.

And we are back!

(the only reason you wouldn't know is if you're a "d-d-d-deee")
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Are you insinuating(sp I know) that it's a crime to be retarded? Thay you are somehow a lesser human being becuase you were born with a mental defeceny(sp)? That just becuase little Johnny cannot tell the diffrence between mainstream and indie he is somehow a lesser undeserving human being. You are sick.

:p

Mainstream is not usually bad, for example, Metallica. They used to be mainstream metal because of their album sells. But we all know (the only reason you wouldn't know is if you're a "d-d-d-deee") that Metallica sold a lot because of their great music
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I know who Metallica is. Sadly enough I don't know who you were point your finger at becuase I never said mainstream was bad. Doesn't take a genious to know that. So why you bring up the name Metallica leaves much to ponder.

 
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Mainstream = bad, because if you listen to it, it equates you with the idiot teenage girls that listen to it and don't know what the **** the song is about. Like Numb, or In the End.
 
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