MTV

After reading the MTV article, it made me question the artists that I listen to. The ending line of the article asked, "do we like music because it looks good or sounds good?" This is a good concept to debate, because there are a lot of singer/songwriters in the spot light that really shouldn't be. They either got into the career because there parents were involved(Miley Cyrus),or they were actors gone musicians(Disney's Stars. Do we like them because they look good or because they have talent? When the article mentioned music videos it said that the videos are what shaped peoples careers to what they are today. For example, Madonna amplified image over sound. Her videos brought in millions of dollars therefore, making her a successful artist. Take Lady Gaga for another example. Is she talented or just so unique(some would say crazy)that it draws people in? MTV was accused of turning down a hard rocking guitarist by the name "Tad" they claimed he was to ugly to make a music video and to be successful. Again this is all pertaining to image. So in reality, are artists successful souly based on talent, or is it because they are easy on the eyes?

While reading about Buddy Holly and the black tour it explained that when they first performed people where not expecting 4 white faces, in grey suits to emerge from behind the curtian. The Crickets had to win the audience over with thier music. This is somewhat contridictory to the MTV article, but if The Crickets image was initially what the audience thought, they would have been loved right off the bat. A quote was "They might be white, but they give blacks a run for thier money" Buddy Holly was good at what he did. Which gained the respect of the audiences everywhere.