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Originally posted by bullshizzlen
Not deserved. It's unfortunate that we live in a world where just because you're popular any song you put out will reach the top.
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gurl it's been like that since the 50s, you're just complaining because the popular artists of this decade are, by your definition, undeserving or bad singers/artists. but don't for one second assume there have NEVER been in any way a popular artists who songs are generally successful in their decade simply because of their name.
and I could name a few: Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Whitney Houston... there have been popular artists to Katy's degree since before Billboard.
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Originally posted by Kartrashian
This is why I despise this decade of music SO MUCH. Back in the 90's and early 00's you would see so much diversity on the billboard charts - rock songs, pop songs, rnb everything, because every singer that released a good song had a chance to be played and it wasn't dominated by 5 pop girls. It's saddening to think that we've come to a stage where we'll only play your music if you look a certain way and you're the most popular singer etc. It's radio for a reason right? So ironic.
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there are still popular songs of different variety, popular music requires some give from its audience. people change and for the last few years people were taking in more pop music. in the past few years a lot of different types of artists have become popular simply because their music offers something different than the regular Katy Perry or Rihanna song.
this idea that mainstream music sucks is so faux pretentious critique. just because it's popular doesn't mean it's bad, just because it's not popular doesn't mean it's good. furthermore, just because you don't like the artist or the song doesn't mean they didn't earn their status. Katy Perry started out just like any recently successful artist -- fairly unknown, fairly interesting music people were willing to listen to. from there she actually worked hard to be a very popular artist and while she might not make the kind of music you like, apparently there are thousands/millions of people that disagree with you.
what it boils down to is that the kind of music that's popular right now isn't your cup of tea. that doesn't mean it sucks or it's terrible. it just means you don't like it.
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Originally posted by Life Savers
The flawed logic. The song was already a beast before its release and if we were to believe your statement then all of her singles would have gone number 1.
Anyway, congrats Katy
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honey like 90% of the TD era was #1 and the last two singles went #1 and she's on her third album. not everything went to the top but you cannot hang on to that logic cause technically everything she releases nowadays gets that amount of success.