sniggly's Journal: about the record companies...

Ah i was too late posting in the generic thread... So here goes..

The choice demographic of the record industry is kids.

Artists are the central attributes of the products that the record industry sells. It isn't music as much as it is selling lifestyle to kids who have little defense against the advertising onslaught and peer pressure. Music, fashion, drinks, cellphones... If you have an artist you can "bundle" other products and services along with it to that gullible audience.

It doesn't matter that most if not all songs on the CD are crap. These are not works of art. They're works of propaganda to further an image of how a kid should be so that they continue to spend their $ into the illusion they've been captured in.

I've met many decent parents who lost their kids to this ubercommecialism that has gone totally out of control. Naturally there are other artists who do not play in this picture but the very fact they're often signed up with the same record companies should give them pause...