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people seem to forget that all the boring whiny white boy guitar bands were born in the nineties.
Well, that's not true at all.
just look at the success of 'the drugs don't work' by the verve.
Well, I think that song's success was both deserved - it's a wonderfully written and performed old school country-western ballad - and unlikely, as the market for that sort of song in the past few decades has been practically non-existant in the mainstream.
oh yeah, and lyra, the most fun music being made right now is by female bands!
I don't know, I don't think the concept of fun in music breaks down along gender lines in any way. I don't think it's a genre thing either... Fun music can be found all over the place, and there's almost always a market for it. Things are a bit different in the UK, playlists aren't nearly as tight as in the US, where I can be very confident in saying we haven't had a truly sad song be a hit in the years since the Telecommunications act was passed in 1996. Angry songs, bitter songs, violent songs, schmaltzy songs, upbeat tunes with sad lyrics, yes - but really melancholy tunes, no.
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