I have been wondering this for awhile, does someone being overexposed and having there fans go crazy over them. Does this ever affect how you look at the music?

Think of all the classic ''sellout'' cries, one of the biggest & most hardcore is when Metallica released the black album & it sold over 12 million albums & there videos where all over MTV. Metal bands usually went platinum at best but Metallica went way further and people started hating them in the metal community.

Do you think is someone like Lady GaGa was more underground or only had 1 big hit ALA M.I.A esque. I have a feeling people would be sayign omg she's so awesome why does no one listen to her!, but if she is like she is know people say omg she is shit why do people listen to her.

I think whether one admits or not, overexposure and certain fans can affect an opinion of an artists. I Used to love MJ but honestly his insane fans & the constant media overrated talk started making me kind of eh i don't feel like listening to his music for awhile.

Adele is the newest, she is selling HUGE but there is a huge backlash on her to. What if she was on Duffy or Leona Lewis status? how different would people view her then?

Discuss

Gunsnhalen said:

I have been wondering this for awhile, does someone being overexposed and having there fans go crazy over them. Does this ever affect how you look at the music?

Think of all the classic ''sellout'' cries, one of the biggest & most hardcore is when Metallica released the black album & it sold over 12 million albums & there videos where all over MTV. Metal bands usually went platinum at best but Metallica went way further and people started hating them in the metal community.

Do you think is someone like Lady GaGa was more underground or only had 1 big hit ALA M.I.A esque. I have a feeling people would be sayign omg she's so awesome why does no one listen to her!, but if she is like she is know people say omg she is shit why do people listen to her.

I think whether one admits or not, overexposure and certain fans can affect an opinion of an artists. I Used to love MJ but honestly his insane fans & the constant media overrated talk started making me kind of eh i don't feel like listening to his music for awhile.

Adele is the newest, she is selling HUGE but there is a huge backlash on her to. What if she was on Duffy or Leona Lewis status? how different would people view her then?

Discuss

I'm a huge mj fan and love having company when it comes fans, but I would be lying if I said neither media or fans being too defensive (though I have done it sometimes out of caring too emotionally though I also call him out for his shit) has affected my fandom too at some points. I just ignore it all though cause he means something to me, and at the end of the day that's all that matters.

janet, mariah, madonna, beyonce fans have all irritated me, I can't talk to any of their fans at forums and prefer talking to all fanbases of these artists on this music board...though some of you piss me off at times too

But that's an interesting point too cause I've kept saying I wished I was born in the 70's so I could have remembered Thriller mania and other mj eras before though I knew of him since the mid 80's and felt bad for not always knowing everything that came out until 95', just a few songs here and there through other people until I went out of my way to listen to new music. But now I think maybe it's a good thing or I wouldn't have appreciated him as a legend the way I do, cause not going out of my way also meant I didn't hear about rumors even if I wondered about his skin and just moved onto other kid things I was into. I say this now because there are so many 90's artists I loved, but there are plenty I have forgotten about or moved on from completely, and when I hear them, I wouldn't exactly call all of them legends or icons and think that term is thrown around too easily. I find it awful that people call britney an icon for example. And before mj's death, I think liking him might have felt a little rebellious though also depressing, but after it, I felt funny enjoying him with others cause I felt they were not the kind of fan I and other longtime ones were, and that these newbies will never know how much crap we put up with for liking him and now they want to kiss ass. Too much media noise too.....I think I prefer less media noise and though I was always into prince and already a member here, I was continuing to play him more and relate to him, and I was already listening to a few indie artists for a few years and continued that....MIA is cool btw, indie or not, dig her

It affects the fact that I get sick of hearing their hits before owning their discs.

No. It's ridiculous to let anything else affect your enjoyment of the music. I don't care about the artist's personal life, I don't care about how 'overrated' or 'underrated' they are.... all that matters is if I enjoy their music. Though if I have overplayed a song (or album or artist), then of course I'll be sick of them for a while..

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Gunsnhalen said:

Do you think if someone like Lady GaGa was more underground or only had 1 big hit ALA M.I.A esque. I have a feeling people would be sayign omg she's so awesome why does no one listen to her!, but if she is like she is know people say omg she is shit why do people listen to her.

Few people would ever talk shit on her if she wasn't popular... same with those who hate Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Radiohead, etc... people just hate that those artists are more popular than the people they like, so they talk shit on them. I know because I used to do it.. I hated Elvis and The Beatles because people said they were bigger/better than MJ. It's stupid to do, though.. you can enjoy an artist without loving them as much as the radio, people on the internet or Rolling Stone magazine does..

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There's no such thing as overexposure when it comes to a great act. The "Street Songs" and "Purple Rain" eras were great and I couldn't get enough of them. When it comes to current acts though, any exposure to them is too much.

CrabalockerFishwife said:

Cinny said:

It affects the fact that I get sick of hearing their hits before owning their discs.

THIS

Like i do get a bit annoyed that when it's Prince all i hear is When Doves Cry, Let's Go Crazy or Liitle Red Corvette. or when it's Zeppelin i usually hear Stairway 99 percent of the time

That is of course for older musicians, but it applies to new to.

vainandy said:

There's no such thing as overexposure when it comes to a great act.

When it comes to current acts though, any exposure to them is too much.

Certainly. I believe songs like When Doves Cry are incredible but I hate it because I've heard it so much. My dad was a really big Adele fan but now he can't stand her because she's played too much.

I never get sick of Prince's old hits. They always become my favorite thing I will hear on the radio that day.