Originally posted by tour96se:
i'm lost here....what makes a jazz artist any more "real" than someone else in the music industry????????.......i find certain hip hop artists to be just as real as some saxaphone slingin' "artist"......point being there is just as much crappy hip hop as there is rock,pop,r&b,country........and jazz,so you cant say that its one music genre or anothers fault...its just ignorant 
No I understand that. I was more pointing to what I was willing to pay for. Artists who create their own music because it is beautiful or out of creative inspiration, not music that is created to sell. The pop music that is created so that music makers can make millions, not to create art. I am not saying rap or hip hop is bad; I do listen to it. Just the stuff that is on the charts is mostly crap, IMO, and I would never pay for that crap. I listen to pretty much any music as long as it is good. I just find it hard to find anything good because of all the pop crap that is thrown at us. As soon as big record companies get their hands on anything they turn the artist to crap in a lot of cases. In jazz for example, the companies don't make a lot of money on it so they don't invest the time into making the artist more marketable like they do pop music. That's just they way I see it, correct me if I am wrong; I have been know to be.
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