FrigidSymphony wrote:
DeathScream\m/ wrote:
FrigidSymphony wrote:
DeathScream\m/ wrote:
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It truly is a shame that the metal subculture has separated itself so vehemently from the mainstream music scene, or the “pop” scene, if you will. While it is understandable that a genre that prides itself in emphasizing technique rather than image would seek to distance itself from the part of the music industry where most value is placed on superficiality..
Isn't this the other way around?
How do you mean? Metal makes it a point to distance itself from mainstream music.
Does the mainstream ever make an attempt to go beyond metal bands such as Metallica, Disturbed, and Slipknot? I mean, once in a while, Rolling Stone will review Opeth, Bodom, or DEP. But ever since Flute Metal was rewarded back in 1989, the mainstream has reduced metal to a few old fogey bands that will die out soon.
How is this relevant? Mainstream music has to be commercially accessible. But just because something is commercially accessible doesn't mean it's automatically musically bad.
But there's commercial and there's commercial. The likes of Nightwish and Turisas are considered as being commercial in metal, but I've never seen either on MTV (thank fuck). But the likes of Paramore and Jonas brothers (who I've never heard either btw
) are commercial on the level of the likes of Simple Plan or McFly because their songs are very simple and have no problem being digested by the retarded masses.
Oh, and one time when I was in the gym, I couldn't believe it, on a rock chart on MTV2 there was none other than the video for fucking Oblivion by Mastodon. The same chart also featured Green Day in a higher position though
Paramore are in no way comparable to the Jonas Brothers, even if some of the same people buy their music. You see, this is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to confront with this review. Some sort of instinctive reaction that if it's popular in the mainstream, it can't be good. Well, it can.
I thought I'd prove you wrong
An utter abomination. Chuck is doing backflips in his grave. 
