Saint John wrote:Deb wrote:Puh-lease, being good enough has very little to do with it, you think Justin Beiber is good enough to warrant a break? Even though he's a Canadian boy, Mr Big has more talent in one of their kneecap's then Beiber does. His talent comes from the people around him (and his haircut). But yet his new single has 3 million youtube hits since friday??
Nope people aren't spoon fed in North America at all.
You, too, are comparing apples to oranges. I'm not talking about today's music scene. I'm talking about a collection of artists that couldn't make it in the mid and late 80's. You know, the time when anybody with a scintilla of talent and hair below their shoulders made it. Heck, even Mr. Big scored a monster hit, but I wasn't really talking about them, anyway.
fairly true for the ones that were active then. There were probably a few that fell through the cracks for whatever reason, but they at least had a decent shot. That said, a lot of what is being talked about here is stuff released in the 90s-2000s, where it didn't matter whether you coulda/woulda/shoulda made it in the 80s--they weren't around then, and didn't have a prayer in the current climate.
Of course, that does deny the groups that made it elsewhere, but never got either a) released, or b) promoted in the US. Those did get at least whatever amount of success they managed to achieve elsewhere. Many of those are still going an selling out anything from 20,000 seat venues to small clubs. They will never play in the US, but they are still out there performing and recording music for the fans.
