From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017022220082457445-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Market research is how it's done in Nashville currently, as in, if   
   > something sells, make more songs as close as you can to the successful   
   > one.  It's a trend thing. " Bro - country " is an example. Checklist   
   > country is another.  Songs that simply copy whatever is selling.   
      
   I prefer my approach of field testing ;)   
   And I've gotten very good responses; I've been told that the songs have   
   meaning, and tell stories and messages, that they have substance, and that   
   I've just got to get them on the radio, which is the plan. I've even been   
   told by one overjoyed listener that he thought songs like that were gone   
   forever.   
   Obviously there are a lot of disenfranchised people who'll be very happy to   
   know there is Music actually worth listening to!   
      
   > Well, that's how it's done, just the same.  There are plenty of record   
   > execs that don't care at all about music, they care about $$$.  If   
   > something sells, they want YOU, the artist, to make something like that so   
   > it will sell too.   
      
   I'm only interested in the Music - if it's good, it will sell.   
      
   > I was thinking of Fleetwood Mac, but hey, if the shoe fits :-)   
      
   Fleetwood Mac? I thought they had enough problems with failing relationships   
   and bad feelings and vibes within the band ;)   
      
   > Life is one long chance to learn, isn't it ?   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   For those into learning, yes, but tragically not for those not interested in   
   learning...which is why history is always repeating itself.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)