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#2031 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 537 weeks ago
Wilders is more like a European Nader or Paul. Hitler put an end to the Trump type characters in politics over here.
What you have is Trump like parties. Progress party in Norway, Swedish democrats, UKIP UK etc. In those you'll find plenty of Donald characters, but none with the leadership qualities to mount anything based on their personas.
NPD might not be polling like Hitler yet, but recent events are likely to give them another surge. NSDAP didn't need an absolute majority to gain power in Germany. If things continue like they do the establishment will be more than a little scared. Police and media are already under orders to suppress news which could potentially give these parties votes. In an atmosphere like that the lid may very well blow off if the economy falters.
They may not be begging for a Trump, but many people are tired of the status quo and the establishment lies. Right wing parties are on the rise all over Europe and that without a terrible economy. If people start losing jobs for real I think the result will be predictable.
#2032 Re: Management » Error message: "Unable to send email".... » 537 weeks ago
Still got the error for the message I want to send and it isn't showing in my send area. If you could fix this that would be great.
Was it a pm?
#2033 Re: Guns N' Roses » GUNS N' ROSES Charging $2,500 For VIP 'Experience' » 537 weeks ago
BUT YOU GET A SUPER EXCLUSIVE POSTER, GUYS.
If you figure out the puzzle on the poster, you get a secret link to download CD II.
...
I'd pay for that.
#2034 Re: The Sunset Strip » Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history » 537 weeks ago
Same as my cousins then. The guys though just play counter strike or collect some type of digital basketball cards on their smart phones, but like fantasy, I don't really know. If they are into music it is stuff like Kiss or AC/DC. Old stuff.
Generally speaking, girls don't care about music either. If they did.....guys would care. Girls less computer savvy? Not buying it. In this era you don't need to be some spazzed out nerd to play around on a computer, console, or phone.
Whatever it is the labels aren't marketing much towards boys besides tits and ass these days.
Who said they care? Music is a product now. Perhaps the industry can only reach the casual or very easy to please listener, or primarily cares about doing so. It's probably the biggest market. Click and drop.
#2035 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 537 weeks ago
I'm still waiting for my European Trump to vote for. Wonder who it will be. Got to be someone I figure.
#2036 Re: The Sunset Strip » Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history » 537 weeks ago
James Lofton wrote:Everything is spread too thin in this culture. Everyone wants to be a star. Do you realize that would possibly be the next Appetite for Destruction could be lying in obscurity on Spotify with 12 streams? There's nowhere for it to go. The labels don't even know what to push and if they did....how to push it. If they invest money in it and push it to the moon will anyone even care or will they spend their time on youtube watching a video of a dog farting instead?
Nah, the problem isn't the overabundance of content out there, the problem is that the labels aren't willing to take any risks any more. Everything is designed by committee to appeal to as broad an audience as possible without being offensive. If it's not a safe bet, then the music business (or movie business, video game business, ...) isn't buying it. Unless that changes, the current decline will continue.
People are looking for something fresh, and paradoxically, the great music of the days of yore is actually fresher than the formulaic shit the labels are pushing these days. It's fresh not because it's new, but because it's out of the norm of what they're used to hearing on the radio. They're discovering this old stuff now, and to them it's exciting 'cause it doesn't sound like anything they've heard before.
This should be a major wake-up call for the labels. The only way they're going to be relevant again is if they get their heads out of their asses and reward risk and uniqueness in new bands/acts. Of every 10 new bands they sign, 9 should fail spectacularly and one has to set the world on fire. Now, of every 10 new bands they design somewhere in an office, 7 of them need to have a hit single or two and they're happy 'cause they haven't outright failed. They're not shooting for greatness and willing to fail along the way, they're covering their asses and afraid of failing.
A&R used to be a lot harder, you had to roam the clubs, try to pick up on the newest buzz in the scenes and make a ballsy decision to support a group of drunk nobodies that happened to be doing something special. Nowadays, everyone with a budget of 2000$ can create a pro-sounding album, and lots of talented people do. They self-publish, and have a decent fanbase. It's not extremely hard to find those bands, but the labels just aren't looking for that anymore.
That's a great point. We don't have any Nirvana's or Soundgarden's today because the big players aren't interested in backing them anymore. Why that is I think is two fold. Downloading devastated the market, and I think especially the male market (mostly males had computers). It seems somewhere down the line people realized that guys are spending more money on games. I know that's true for me and probably a lot of people on this board. So they are shifting popular music over to the female demographic. Maybe because girls are considered less computer savvy, or because it is easier to sell them mass produced music, who knows. But it's definitely a trend when you look at the big artists in music today, all of them female. Adele, Beyonce, Perry, Rhianna, Swift, Gaga...even Cyrus is a bigger celebrity than any male artist I can think of, and all I know about her is that she plays the slut.
The other is business culture. Used to be the music industry was about finding a good product and sell that product. Now they can engineer products and it is considered a much safer, stable and probably more profitable business model than striking dead 9 times out of 10 to find that special talent. With the advent of home studios it also means there aren't thousands of real artists clamoring on the doors of labels to record an album. So everyone is basically happy. And that's the real problem, it's not a dying industry, it's a changing one. This shit is here to stay.
#2037 Re: Guns N' Roses » Nightrain Official Site » 537 weeks ago
The success of AFD and UYI should have erased all doubt in Slash' mind on whether Axl knew what he was doing. All the synth and piano is what propelled them from just another hard rock band into world beaters. A status buttering Slash' bread to this day.
#2038 Re: Guns N' Roses » Nightrain Official Site » 537 weeks ago
Bottom line though is that Slash never seemed to like the ballads and the piano type tracks - even the ones he made epic like Estranged and NR - they've always been a compromise - Slash just wants to play AFD type rockers. He even complains in his book about Axl adding synth to PC and other songs.
I think Slash has changed his tune, playing songs with Adam Levine n shit
He always did that.
Guess he just didn't like it in GN'R.
#2039 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 537 weeks ago
Did he mean his voters wouldn't care, or that none of them hangs out on Fifth Avenue? 
#2040 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 537 weeks ago
Donald Trump: 'I could shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters'
US Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is so confident in his support base that he said he could stand on New York’s Fifth Avenue “and shoot somebody” and still not lose voters.
Speaking in Iowa, Trump claimed he could withstand any attempt by his political rivals to knock him off his top perch.
Trump, the New York billionaire and former reality TV star who has been virtually impervious to attacks from his opponents, pushed the limits of his political rhetoric again in Sioux Center, Iowa.
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters,” he said.
For his rivals, Trump has become a hard target to criticise because not all of his supporters are conservatives and many are most interested in his projection of strength, not where he stands on a particular issue.
The latest Reuters-Ipsos tracking poll had Trump pulling in 40.6% support of Republican voters nationally. A CNN/ORC poll has Trump up in Iowa with 37% to 26% for Cruz, who has led in some other Iowa polls.
