quoted 13 lines A large body of IDM that I hear is so head-in-ass in the culture of> A large body of IDM that I hear is so head-in-ass in the culture of
>hipness and irony, that I can think of few more fitting fates for the music
>than an artist like v/vm being used in a commercial on TV. I think many
>musicians would probably appreciate the irony of that.
> I fail to see how anything that causes interest in an artist is that bad.
>I mean, yes, I'm sure many of us have a lot of time and energy invested in
>being hip and underground thanks to electronic music, but I'll bet the Orb,
>etc. are enjoying having new fans who discovered them via some commercial.
>They have more fans, more people appreciating their music, and they get a
>few more cents income from selling extra cds. How is this bad, other than
>robbing people of Punk Rock Points because their music is in a commercial
>now? If a musician works a day job, how is that any less of a selling-out
>to 'the Man' than liscensing a track?
I look at it like this: Artist works his ass off to get signed, earns
credibility within a fairly small, but devoted scene, then for whatever
reason, decides to just turn his/her back on his/her fans by selling song to
TV commercial so that millions of idiots will perceive a company of being
futuristic, and never looking at instrumental electronic music any other way
partially BECAUSE they've come to associate it with futuristic TV ads.
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