Think it as when you listen to an album song, and nobody knows it, you create certain feeling of "owning" it, until it becomes a single and everyone knows it and you're like "Bitch that was my jam 2 months ago you flop ass ho", Same happens with artists
I think some people hate it when people start saying things like "I've always supported them from the start" when they blow up or go mainstream. That's probably what bothers people who have been supporting an underground act from the start.
Think it as when you listen to an album song, and nobody knows it, you create certain feeling of "owning" it, until it becomes a single and everyone knows it and you're like "Bitch that was my jam 2 months ago you flop ass ho", Same happens with artists
Because sometimes, the quality of the music declines when artists compromise their music just to continue the fame they've started to gain. Of course I'm not talking about all of them, just some
I don't mind it. The popularity gain from mainstream ensures that they will have the support from bigger labels, which turns lucrative for the artists and hopefully for us when we get more music from the artists. I discovered a lot of great bands and artists because of the fact that they broke out into mainstream.