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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I have no issue with popular music.
I also don't believe that any musician gets into this business without the dream of making it big (i.e. commercialization). I have no problem with this.
In the end, if I like the music, I like the music.
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It's not that I object to the commercialization of music per se. Musicians need to make money, same as anyone. I suppose the standard is whether a musician is in this career path for the music, or for the money/fame/women. I would contend that anyone who pursues the latter is ultimately a fool anyway, since the odds of actually achieving that kind of success are vanishingly small.
I don't know that Nickelback was always that way. Silver Side Up really was good. It was new, and it had a lot of energy. There were some good sounds there. But ever since then they've stagnated. Given my views of music as an artform, this makes it very difficult for me to take them seriously.