Flogging a Dead Nickelback
by The Scene on February 21st, 2008
We harped a bit on this yesterday, but we find the fact that the good people over at Kings of A & R, who we usually hold up as fairly reasonable, agreed with Jimmy Iovine’s point that the reason of that modern rock radio is terrible is the fault of the artists not being “creative enough,” we had to weigh in again. When radio stations keep defining down “alternative rock” as “bands that sound like Nickelback” and “bands that sound like Nickelback but emo” they shouldn’t act surprised when everything on their stations sound like fucking Nickelback. Iovine is doing here was major labels do best, pass the buck (in this case its the blame but in most cases its just mounds of debt) down to the individual artists. The problem here is with the gatekeepers, not with the people they let though. To pretend there aren’t enough good rock bands to populate the radio is an act of ill-informed arrogance of the type that got major labels in the mess they’re currently in.
on February 21st, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Tim Ramsey
on February 22nd, 2008 at 12:42 am
” creative enough” yea right….as if lovine would know.