explain how chris martin gets his new song violet hill on my local hard rock/alternative radio station? explain why they’re suddenly playing jack johnson and tom petty instead of iron maiden, nine inch nails and white stripes? does it have anything to do with the fact that coldplay, petty and johnson are all playng a huge summer music festival here? and so what if they are? whats that got to do with my station, unless someone is being paid off somewhere to add these three to the setlists? payolla is illegal, but i’d imagine there are other incentives such as sponsors and advertising and marketing that will equal out to the same thing really.
and who decides what music is good and what isnt? certainly not the public. if record sales and concert attendance were what radio stations had to abide by for popularity, surely there would be other bands in the top 20 rather than the ones that are there currently? and i hate that the music industry seems to be wanting to water down the talent pool and make everything the same. sameness sucks. what ever happened to diversity? in todays music business i dont think the likes of Dylan would make it.
mainstream north american radio sucks.
