We can start this with the next question, What is commercial music? From my point of view, it’s the music constructed in sound laboratories, where today’s producers are involved. These producers choose a talented person, take it into the studio and they mold it according to the tendency in the market at that moment.This conversion from talent to product destroys the artist’s creativity, making the artistic essence disappears and the prefabricated work rules around the pop culture.
When we talk about commercial music, this one doesn’t depend on the pop gender, there is art mechanization in the other music styles too. We can find commercial music quite superficial in rock music (My chemical romance is a great example), in rap (Eminem), and even in metal (Metallica albums as Load and Reload). Nobody saves from this, and the saddest thing is that this tendency is increasing each day.
Could we say that all commercial music in the market is garbage? Of course not. There are some artists that have the control of the creative process in the records, and they achieve the balance between the commercialism and product quality. Musicians like Phil Collins and Elthon John can create incredibly commercial products, but the effort and the quality put in the records is huge.
The big problem comes when the artist sales the soul to the devil and leaves all the creative process in a producer, a writer and an arranger, people that obviously have a different vision that the musician have. They are exclusively focused in how many singles the album is going to have, how kitschy the chorus is, and what other artist has done something like that.
The interesting about this, is that commercial music has a short life, and most of the times it doesn’t transcend historically. Artists like New Kids on the block, Flans, and many others, are ones who sold a lot of records in a period of time. Nevertheless, today they are forgotten in the music business.
On the other hand, when music is made with the soul, the transcendence is almost a guarantee. Great artists keep on stage for more than 20 years, just for being honest and not thinking in the money they are going to make. Anyway, the commercial music is not the only one that could sell tons of records. Hundreds of non-commercial artists have made a lot of money with his music. Nirvana, Pantera, Slayer, Kiss, Guns and Roses, Massive Attack are just few names in the universe of music that have been faithful to their believes.
Besides, if we add the quality of non-commercial music, then we have the perfect mix: amazing sounds, intelligent creations, and musical ability, we can’t ask for nothing else from a musician, so why do we have to conform with a repetitive and vulgar rhythm? I don’t know, you guys, but I prefer what soul makes. Let’s support good music, whatever the style is, because there will always be good and bad music, but we have the freedom to choose the best one.
by Cristian
4 comments:
I think that there is good and bad music, this commercial music is going to be always in our life. I really like this kind of music, because some groups are fine for me, even though other people wouldn't like them, but I support them.
mmm I don't know, I think comercial music is a good thing...for example, Justin timberlake is comercial but he has great music you know? You put as an example Eminem....Eminem was great, even though, he was comercial.Obviously there are artist that aren't great at all, for example some of these boy bands,o-town,westlife...and many other...
But my point is that if something is comercial it could be good as well
I love commercial music, but it's true what you said, sometimes the artist doesn't have enough skills to be a singer. Thus, many real talented persons don't have the oportunity to succes
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