MP3: St. Vincent - "The Strangers"

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Before moving on to the question, I think its necessary to address one more underlying assumption that I have made. I think it should be first asked: is there really a problem with the music industry in the first place?


 

Can we really complain about a system where Taylor Swift is #1 on the charts? This is a country, after all, where one of the highest rated shows on television is Two and a Half Men. Wouldn't it make sense that the charts are dominated by vanilla, when that's what the majority really yearns for? Doesn't this just mean that the music industry is efficiently responding to the desires of the mainstream? Is the system really skewed just because the music that I enjoy is not in the mainstream? I think I was making an assumption that the music that I listen to would be embraced by the mainstream if they could just their hands on it - and I don't think that is really the case.

 

So rather than argue that Bon Iver and Animal Collective should supplant Taylor Swift and Nickelback from the top of the charts, I think that I should instead argue that Bon Iver and Animal Collective should have an equal opportunity to join Taylor Swift and Nickelback, should the mainstream collectively decide that they are worthy. And it is definitely my belief that they currently do not have equal access to mainstream audiences, despite the unprecedented ease of distribution that the internet affords those bands.


 

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