Overall this is terrible for music. Artists will be far too concerned with making every song a pop hit that will make them rich. What makes music good is the classic album that we see little of these days; the album that maybe has one hit single that unfairly overshadows the genius of the rest of the album. I find that more and more greatest hits albums are being released, so as to generate more revenue by giving people what they want to hear. Even Radiohead, a band known for their extreme distaste for mainstream music, now has a greatest hits album. To me its like, what's the point? What makes music so good is the variety. We need music that downright sucks, so as to make other artists and tracks all that much more enjoyable.
To me the problem is already evident in hip-hop music. The focus has been centered on making a catchy beat and less upon the lyrics in the song. Artists like Soulja Boy and Travis Porter are perfect examples of this mass movement down the slippery slope towards "fake" hip-hop. Are lyrics gonna be thrown out all together? What's next?
I am also thrown as to what this will mean for heavy metal artists. Will their genre be abolished entirely seeing as they don't have as great a following as others? Or will they transform themselves into marketable, Metallica imitators?
I shudder to think about the future of rock. If rock looses its grit and attitude then it might as well be grouped side by side with pop or worse yet, country. Oh god!
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