Music and the Commercial Marketplace
...nd that reason is for profit. The relationship between pop and rock music in the commercial marketplace is stunning. Today, scouts search everywhere for new, young performers and rush them into the business mostly for their own benefits. They recreate the person’s image, the music they will make, and how it will be sold. They tell you how you can dress and how you can act, and basically change who you are as a person. The image of these performers is truly determined however, by how they act in television advertisements, interviews, and in performance. One wrong move and that image is destroyed forever on the marketplace. This is how pop and rock musicians can end up being victims of their own success. Music labels for pop and rock music seem to be willing to do anything to get their music crossed over onto the mainstream audience. They will spend tons and tons of money just to produce a video, so they will end up getting noticed by the public and perhaps put on television. Labels also hire radio promotion people so that their music gets played on the radio and hopefully becomes more mainstream. This is just another added expense, that...