that´s all fine with me, though I couldn´t flip as you do bout certain "coca cola"-aspects -
still the question was: "why is he the MORE popular" ? many of the things you mentioned would fit to many different individual Detroit artists - the way you pronounced it also gives me the impression as if you think Mr Hawtin is the one doing it "better" - don´t want to go on with this - and no question: respect for Mr Hawtins work but I would prefer to see some more people (from Detroit) representing on the pictures too - (imagining about a million young people visiting the page) out m planetz2002 > 1. Richie Hawtin is more popular because he's a marketing genius. > > 2. The Plastikman logo is an icon. Just like Coca-Cola logo. > > 3. He ran an extremely successful recordlabel (+8) that didn't limit > itself to strictly Detroit, therefore it had more sucess outside of Detroit. > > 4. Spaztik is perhaps the most versitile track of all-time. It works with > house, techno, booty... Everyone plays it, everyone loves it. > > 5. Even today, Rich aligns himself with exciting new technologies that are > not only cutting edge, but great for filling column inches in magazines. > > 6. Plus, he is definately in the top 10 DJ/producers in the world when it > comes to quality records and amazing sets. > > But since quality in music is more or les subjective and I have no desire > to argue with anyone who believes that Richie is not a good artist, please > refer back to points 1-5 to answer the question 'why is hawtin more > popular?' > > > > On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, neon tse tse wrote: > >> Yes, Richie Hatwin is a serious good artist, >> >> but why is he the "far more popular" one ? >> >> because he´s "the best" ? >> >> do you believe in "the best" ? >> >> is it possible he´s "far more popular", >> >> because he also is on so many photos, jpgs, maybe ? >> >> so again we need to enter the question: >> >> why is he on so many photos ? >> >> >>> >>> >>>> 5 out of the 6 pics of dj's on the website are of richie >>>> >>>> >>>> whitewashing at it's finest >>>> >>>> >>>> *angry beyond measure* >>> >>> >>> if it was 5 different white artists, then maybe i can understand. But if >>> all five are of Richie, then i don't think this is whitewashing in the >>> SLIGHTEST. Say what you want, but richie is a far more popular and well >>> recognized artist (please, don't just say because he's white), and most >>> likely *that* is why so many of those pictures are of him. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _________________________________________________________________ >>> Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
