Originally Posted by BIG JIM MERRILEES
In a friendly way Mark....have a look at TV adverts aimed at kids ....THEN tell me TRUTHFULLY they do not buy overpriced crap. To a lesser degree the same applies to adults. Why should music be any different. It is a scientific fact that at least 10% of the population are tone deaf. After watching AI I maintain it is at least 99.9% but I also maintain that the general public with only a few exceptions have a narrow disposable taste in music caused by only listening to such a narrow mix being put in front of them by the media and pressure by their peers to blindly follow.
As a famous showman once said "There is a sucker born every minute"

The more sheep the more BAAAAs...

PS Nobody will admit that they are easily lead....but we all are. Why do you think politicians get elected.


Sure they buy overpriced crap. But they have to LIKE it to keep buying it. If they don't like it, they'll never buy it again.

It's not "suckers" who keep buying Taylor Swift albums...it's fans. Taylor Swift is what they genuinely like, like it or not.

If you took three times the promotion money spent on Taylor, and split it up equally between me and you and Mike, right now in 2010...Taylor Swift would still outsell the three of us. People keep buying her because they keep liking her.

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