"Your" music being discovered: Slightly betrayed or happy for the band?

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Permalink Reply by stephanie on May 10, 2009 at 1:47am

I feel happy for them.As we say in France there are many called up or conscripts bot only a few chosen lucky ones.I think Art is a way to express feelings of any type all covered by some suffering.Suffering that you can't explain or express in everyday oral communication : getting in the commercial stuff make them gt paid for what they've been through no?

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Anne on May 10, 2009 at 5:05pm

I'm happy for their success... but sad for myself, knowing about a little gem that seemed tucked away, hidden just for me.

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Permalink Reply by Matty on May 10, 2009 at 8:31pm

I agree with all of you...its like you have this little thing you feel like is your own and makes you part of an art form and when its discovered by 12 year olds you feel a little bitter..but at the same time happy for the band...but then theres this weird seperation feeling from the music and the band like it isn't like it was anymore...

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Permalink Reply by Matty on May 10, 2009 at 8:33pm

If you all haven't heard of them check out Silversun Pickups....they are phenomenal..to me anyway :-) They're on MTV a little now...just came out with a new album.

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Permalink Reply by stephanie on May 10, 2009 at 11:20pm

Thank you Matty if I may call you so ! I went on you tube and listened to Silversun Picks : just a wonderful jump back in my 20s !all that rage to prove we're adult but with so much love inside !Right now I miss the sun , beach , sand and my youth!
Don't want to be nosy but if they're phenomenal for you, you must be in falling in love mood then?!!!!!III cross fingers for you !

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Permalink Reply by Kristin on May 11, 2009 at 1:47pm

I used to love the Silversun Pickups in high school but I totally forgot about them. I'm excited to check out their new album.. thanks for the heads up!

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Permalink Reply by Charles on May 11, 2009 at 7:07pm

I can't blame them; there are so few ways for bands to make money. As I heard one guy whom I now dislike put it (his name starts with a Mo and ends with a by) "I'd rather hear good music in films or commercials than bad music," but there is something disenchanting about hearing _your_ shit in a car commercial. e.g. Great Northern: I loved them but heard a few of their songs in commercials & my tires deflated. whatever.
Moby was bad-mouthing God so I left the show. It sucked anyway--his disco band. I thought he was Christian. You can tell a tree by its fruit.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Huckabee on May 12, 2009 at 7:28am

I'm older than most of the people here so I've seen this happen several times. The biggest for me was Talking Heads. When I first saw them it was in a little club in Houston that held maybe 50 people. I was within 3 feet of the stage and they were incredible. Of course they went on to become huge with #1 albums and gigantic stadium shows. Eventually David Byrne moved beyond all that and his stuff now has the same things in it that attracted me in the first place. Maybe if you wait long enough your favorite artists will move beyond the hype and get back to where they began.

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Permalink Reply by Kristine Allen on May 14, 2009 at 5:12am

It's sort of the same thing that I went through with The Nightmare Before Christmas. It has always been my favorite movie ever since I was six, and I always used to ask people "Have you seen the NBC? OMG YOU HAVE TO ITS AMAZING". Then the tenth anniversary release of the DVD came out and Hot Topic picked up merchandising. I was thrilled that I was able to purchase the merchandise, but at the same time something really special to me was now everywhere and I felt like I lost something that was a little unique about myself. I still love the movie and I care a lot less now about it being super popular but it kind of crushed me a little when I was 16.

With that said I am the same way about music. At first its like a slap in the face, but with time it wears off (unless they totally change their music to stay popular which makes no sense bc theyve gotten famous on their music).

As to hearing your music on commercials... I LOVE IT it makes me giggle esp when my mom looks at me and she's like "Let me guess, you know another song on commercial. Even Lily Allen's "Fuck You" was on a promo on Showtime recently.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Huckabee on May 14, 2009 at 6:51am

My favorite song in a commercial is Iggy Pop's Lust for Life that is used in by Carribean Cruise Lines. I guess that no one on their Board of Directors ever actually listened to the words to that song! They are way, way, far, far away from what their company would actually want. If you've never listened closely to the song you can find the lyrics here.

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