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[HNIC]

So you like it as an art project more than the music? And at what point could she just make pooping sounds in the studio to a beat but the imagery would still be the catalyst for what drives the sales?

[Jacki O.]

So you like it as an art project more than the music? And at what point could she just make pooping sounds in the studio to a beat but the imagery would still be the catalyst for what drives the sales?

I like the whole thing i think they compliment each other nicely, and successfully.

i love art. Music is an art project. The more art the merrier. Our culture doesn't respect art enough.

imagery is the catalyst that drives the sales for everything mijo.

[HNIC]

imagery is the catalyst that drives the sales for everything mijo.

Dangerous road to travel on as then music just becomes an easilly marketed product for forward thinking record execs with degrees from Art School and no longer art itself...more fashion, less function...

[Jacki O.]

imagery is the catalyst that drives the sales for everything mijo.

Dangerous road to travel on as then music just becomes an easilly marketed product for forward thinking record execs with degrees from Art School and no longer art itself...more fashion, less function...

it's dangerous to go the other way and exclude any and all artistic value from music.

thankfully you can't extract one from the other. art is the bun to music's hot dog.
marketing and sales are the mustard and relish.

i don't believe that music has to be 100% function.

all music should be making a serious statement?

what if your serious statement is to entertain, to be un-serious, to make people dance?

banish it!

In soviet russia music listens to us!

[HNIC]

No you do need a good beat to shake your ass to. What I am saying though is they are not marketing Lady Gagas music at all but her "crazy" image. And since they are just marketing an image Lady Gaga is as groundbreaking as any current pop princess...and in that I dont need to "drink the Kool Aid" that I didnt follow some hipsters lead in reverse psychology.

[Jacki O.]

No you do need a good beat to shake your ass to. What I am saying though is they are not marketing Lady Gagas music at all but her "crazy" image. And since they are just marketing an image Lady Gaga is as groundbreaking as any current pop princess...and in that I dont need to "drink the Kool Aid" that I didnt follow some hipsters lead in reverse psychology.

uhhh that's what they do with every mainstream, major label-backed musician/artist! that's not what you started out saying. you started out saying that people don't like those albums not because they aren't cool enough but because they aren't good enough. Which is subjective anyways. You can't argue personal tastes. I like her. You don't.

i didn't drink the "i hate everything that isn't my pre-prescribed Punk music Kool-Aid"
so i guess we'll both have to die with our own Kool-Aids, in our own cults, me listening to Lady Gaga, you not so much.

My Kool-Aid is purple.

[HNIC]

I barely listen to punk. I do however know a marketing plan when I see one.

[HNIC]

And Grape "purple drank" is the finest of the flavors...

[Jacki O.]

And Grape "purple drank" is the finest of the flavors...