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I have been wondering about the music you do
I have to admit, I am the mainstream guy. I did have the impression, that we got many people here, who like to do otherwise. Just curious.
Anyway, enough Apps out there to do whatever we want :-)
A good question would be: What is mainstream. I'd say, something that can be quite easily grasped by the average listener. And it is not necessarily defined by the style.
- The music I am doing is48 votes
- 100% mainstream12.50%
- 90% mainstream0.00%
- 80% mainstream10.42%
- 60% mainstream10.42%
- 40% mainstream18.75%
- 20% mainstream8.33%
- 10% mainstream8.33%
- 0% mainstream31.25%
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Good poll idea but the question is totally subjective, especially when you ask the creator who more often than not is the least objective about their labour of love.
Hey, if I make it it’s mainstram. Even if other people haven’t caught up yet
Have absolutely no idea. Whats mainstream nowadays?
I assume my attempt to describe it, as I did it in the first post could be a definition.
"What is mainstream. I'd say, something that can be quite easily grasped by the average listener. And it is not necessarily defined by the style."
Very true, your future may widen the definition of mainstream.
I like to think of what I do as 'highly, commercial pop', whereas everyone else defines it as 'weird, mostly unlistenable shit'. Everyone else is wrong, obviously.
Is “mainstream” some new esoteric genre that the kids in the street are all about these days?
I make white noise industrial future funk ambient pop. No idea how mainstream that is...
Edited:
...never will hit that 100%
Depending.....from zero to 99,99%
Derivative.
From what I like.
the concept of mainstream existed when we were kids, too.
I try to make EDM/ Acid/ Techno type music- which you would probably say is mainstream. But I want to make it at least as interesting but at the same time different to anything I have heard (which unfortunately means binning almost everything I have written)...... though no matter how hard I try- it will probably still be mainstream at the end of the day........ that is if it is good enough to be considered mainstream. It may well be considered 100% sh*t€ by most people
- but that wasn't an option as a category.
Pissed myself laughing. Change pants and off to bed.
You should check out the movie Frank if you haven't already. You could probably relate to it. I know I did.
I am the worst at these discussions...
Grasped by the average listener in terms of 'yes, that sounds musical' or grasped as in the average listener gets where the influences/intension is coming from?
I could relate to the depressed side for sure.
I don't really think it is a discussion, maybe more of an exchange of ideas?
Well, unlikely that my attempt to describe mainstream is complete, I'd try and put it down more simple. The average listener likes to listen to it.
Funnily enough that's usually the reaction I get to my music.
I have, excellent film. Good recommendation.
Back to the original question - I don't know what mainstream is, because I'm not part of it - never have been. I'm a middle aged bloke living in the middle of nowhere, pretty much stuck in the house every day with a mentally ill, agoraphobic 8 year old. When I'm working on my own I listen to stuff that most people would describe as weird (Nurse with wound is on constant rotation at the moment), and since many of my musical collaborators are bona fide nutjobs, the results are never going to sound like Beyoncé, or whoever it is they're listening to these days. Naturally I keep the 8 year old shielded from this stuff (he likes The Beatles), otherwise he'd probably eat the walls. Or worse, enjoy it.
So I guess you have to be living in the mainstream to know what it is, and what other people in it like listening to, because I haven't got a clue. Funnily enough I do occasionally encounter people who like my stuff. I've got a couple of collectors bordering on the obsessive, or maybe that should be over the border. They're generally middle aged, ex-hippy blokes that have done too many drugs, and don't go out much anymore.
Stick to what you know, as my old mum used to say.
One of the good things about this forum is that it's not musically genre focussed - just the tools we use. So we all get to mix up ideas and techniques with other bods.
Yep, and very interesting it is, too. Many times I/we have seen something someone else is doing here, making an entirely different style of music, and realised that it could be adapted or a technique incorporated into our own work. Wouldn’t get that most other places.
As for mainstream, I loathe and detest the Loudness Wars vapid crap the industry keeps pumping out like aural sewage. What RTM are trying to do, in our own small way, is make music that we’d like to hear. The catchy, light and shade music of yesteryear, with lyrics that are about something. All using the latest apps we can get our hands on. As long as we like the end results, then it’s time well spent. If others like it too, then that is a bonus.
Mainstream = how likely it is to fit in on regular major radio channel playlist?
It could be noted I personally hate radio music for the most part, just trying to define what "mainstream" could mean.
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The industry has always pushed selected acts, of course. But until about a decade ago, there was always variety. Always the chance of something new and interesting, or a different twist on an old theme.
Now, it either fits the template or it doesn’t get mainstream play. Songs don’t even have to be any good, ‘cause whatever is selected is rammed relentlessly onto every mainstream TV, Internet, radio and background channel available. By being everywhere we go, we can’t always turn it off, so mediocre efforts from factory assembled ‘stars’ gets into people’s heads, and enough of them buy it.
So, mainstream today is a very narrow band. Mainstream in the past could conceivable encompass many who make IOS based music. Perhaps the circle will turn and the public will reject mass manufactured pop and rock, just as a generation was waiting for Elvis, and in some measure another generation was desperate for Elvis Costello, and other New Wave.
True that. I have found myself trapped in cars where the radio is on, and as I listen to "this weeks top list" etc I have started thinking that radio has a quite nice position in actually "creating" the top list, which they then can play, and people buy it because they've heard it and the songs rise on the top lists on purchases and streams, and many people like when they recognize the songs on radio. Rince, repeat.
It becomes very clear why the record companies are smooching the radio hosts and the "music experts" (which, to me, are just opinionated music listeners with a license to influence) that compile the rotation lists (which the shows have to adhere to).
If "Radio" decides NOT to play an artist that can probably be quite devastating for climbing top lists etc, though there are a couple of exceptions now and then.
For me, music will make me feel things, such as happiness, sadness, anger etc, and I therefore prefer picking what I listen to carefully. Radio usually just make me angry.
It's amazing watching repeats of Top of the Pops from the 70's and 80's - the sheer diversity of styles is incredible - there's everything in there: tunes the milkman can whistle to, heavy metal, punk, disco, comedy numbers, glam stuff, old crooners your nan would enjoy....and that's just on one show. That's what I call mainstream - music for everyone between 8 and 80, not like it is now.
I occasionally hit Radio 1 accidentally, and now it all just sounds the same. That could either be down to me being too old...or it might just all sound the same. And side-chaining makes me shudder, in a bad way.
Ken Bruce is on holiday and his stand in has just used the phrase 'shout out', so it's time to switch the radio off. Nurse With Wound anyone?
Guess what is mainstream and what is not ?
Scott before his transformation :
Scott after his transformation :
I'd describe my "music" as repetetive and monotonous so yeah .. mainstream
Hands down the best male voice in rock/pop, and all he wants to do is record the musical equivalent of the Emperor’s New Clothes. If there is such a thing as a God-given gift, SW had it, and stuck up two fingers.
When the Walker Brothers were in the charts, as MonzoPro has pointed out, there was incredible and genuine mainstream diversity.
The saddest thing is that SW could have had the best of of both worlds, recording whatever weirdness he found entertaining, and to fund that, singing the greatest ballads written over the past 40 years.
Well, now he has done the soundtrack of this movie and the frontier between mainstream or not is now less obvious
"mainstream diversity" - we should really have more if that, I agree.
just watched The Bottom Feeder by NWW. yep, definitely not what you'd call mainstream music. hehe.
although, i think the video might do well on prime time ITV
I can barely get people to listen to my music. If I put out something completely off the wall, then no one would listen, and that would make me a sad boy. But, I do tend to compose mainstream stuff. Mainly cuz, that's what I like. Mainstream things like: thrash, techno, rock, hopefully country at some point.
That way, the 4 people that listen to me, will still listen to me, cuz they probably dig the mainstream stuff.