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Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts) Sun Jan 13, 2013, 02:59 AM Jan 2013

Otis and Eric............ Now Shake!

Best thing evah!?

How did we get to where ever we are now.... All energy and no soul?

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Otis and Eric............ Now Shake! (Original Post) Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2013 OP

In a word, MTV. rocktivity Jan 2013 #1

yup... the 'free hand of the market'.... except Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2013 #2

Here's the Eric Burdon Part rocktivity Jan 2013 #3

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rocktivity

(44,576 posts)

1. In a word, MTV.

Reply to Joe Shlabotnik (Original post)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 03:19 AM

Jan 2013

Wholesale music video marketing shifted the emphasis from style to substance, which substituted constant visual reinvention for talent and musicianship -- why do you think that Madonna was MTV's patron saint?

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Joe Shlabotnik

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2. yup... the 'free hand of the market'.... except

Reply to rocktivity (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 03:31 AM

Jan 2013

perhaps some things were never genuinely marketable in the first place. Nailed it. Everyone suffers as a result. Disco-ing might have been fun.... but it was a trade off of being genuine.