Why does everyone hate James Blunt?

ElvisFan said:
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About time it was said.
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For once, thee and me are in agreement :)

The record industry is too determined to play it safe and easy instead of nuturing the very real talent that is out there.
 
Nah, the music industry is producing the quality of music of which the nation asks for. It knows what it's target audience wants to listen to, and gives it to them. These days it's all about making money, and not always about the quality of what is produced. It's become production line stuff.
 
Triad2000 said:
Nah, the music industry is producing the quality of music of which the nation asks for. It knows what it's target audience wants to listen to, and gives it to them. These days it's all about making money, and not always about the quality of what is produced. It's become production line stuff.
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What the nation asks for is very much determined by the record industry themselves, despite what people may say.
In a previous job I worked for a company that was the sole UK distributor of a particular, highly successful label, and was responsible for all of its marketing in the country. At one stage following discussions with someone about alternative marketing and information I queried with the marketing manager if he thought keeping track of certain forums would be advantageous to help focus the marketing. The response back pretty much defines the music industries attitude. "Why would we need to do that? The populations primary tastes are shaped by our marketing, all we'd be seeing was the response of that." He tried it for a month or two and that just re-confirmed his initial comment.
 
I don't know, preceding the influx of gutless indie and sorrowful ballads that we've had in the last couple of years, what was the music industry full of for several years (I'm going to ignore hip-hop & R&B here as that's been pretty constant)?

Nu-metal, rap-metal (same thing?), punk rock, more punk rock, etc.

Between Britpop and now, we've had a good 5 years or so of Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Blink182, The Offspring, Alien Ant Farm, etc etc etc dominating the charts. No wonder people were crying out for some slower, softer stuff!

So now we have the rise and rise of Coldplay to alsmost-REM status, Damien Rice, James Blunt, Katie Melua, KT Tunstall, rock-ish but fairly inoffensive bands like the Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, blah blah blah...

It'll all come around again within a couple of years, I am sure.
 
Garp said:
What the nation asks for is very much determined by the record industry themselves, despite what people may say.
In a previous job I worked for a company that was the sole UK distributor of a particular, highly successful label, and was responsible for all of its marketing in the country. At one stage following discussions with someone about alternative marketing and information I queried with the marketing manager if he thought keeping track of certain forums would be advantageous to help focus the marketing. The response back pretty much defines the music industries attitude. "Why would we need to do that? The populations primary tastes are shaped by our marketing, all we'd be seeing was the response of that." He tried it for a month or two and that just re-confirmed his initial comment.
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Agreed, much of this manufactured stuff is cleverly marketed, and is usually thrashed to death on the radio/tv ads, etc. It does, however have a short shelf life. It shows that music that has been produced by people who actually have talent lasts, for example Pink Floyd, Beatles, etc, and it does not need to be thrashed in the media for it to be sold in millions.
 
sara said:
So now we have the rise and rise of Coldplay to alsmost-REM status, Damien Rice, James Blunt, Katie Melua, KT Tunstall, rock-ish but fairly inoffensive bands like the Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, blah blah blah...

It'll all come around again within a couple of years, I am sure.
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The man speaketh the truth .. emo will probably be a nu-metal style 5 minute wonder then the pendulum will swing back again to softer stuff :)
 
Sic said:
i'm all about bringing adversaries together :p
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And then killing both with one swift attack? :p

Chronos-X said:
The man
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Sara, such a manly name. How did you come up with that may I ask?


Like people have been saying, he is inoffensive to the general public. Most people will either like him or feel indiferent so theres never really a bad word said about him, which means the people that like him never actually listen to it and realise what complete rubbish it is.
 
Sic said:
to be honest, if i were to have sat there naming all the different outfits across the genres, i'd have been here all night. those are the most fresh in my mind :) we are a great country for music, we're just misrepresented by the likes of Damien Rice, James Blunt, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand and all the other C-Student musical outfits that NME are currently whoring
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I blame Jo Wiley for poisoning the minds of our confused youth :p
 
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