Yes and No. The Chemical brothers and Fatboy Slim tend to choose a single or a couple very catchy vocal edits and repeat them over and over. We know they're samples but I think the general audience probably thinks it might be the artist or a singer.
"Smack My Bitch Up". Ugggh. - Giles D I G I T A S // B O S T O N -- Giles Dickerson Art Director 800 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02199 -- mobile 617 899 9635 office 617 369 8601 > ---------- > From: robin pinning > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 1, 2002 1:45 PM > To: Giles Dickerson > Cc: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: [313] Marketinbg techno + house to the masses > > > > I think a huge part of why the attempts to marklet house and techno on > >a large scale have failed is because there is no one singing (sure > >occasionally there is) but there's no one there dancing singing to make a > >video of, talking to the audience. Popular music has melodies that are > >easily remembered and have lyrics than be sung along to. I'm guessing > >thet's the huge appeal the house and techno are often missing. > > i used to think that too but people like norman cook (fat boy slim) and > the chemical brothers are hugely popular over here (UK) and over there > too and a lot of their records don't have vocals as such on them. > > does this mean that people have 'got over' the need for a vocal to latch > the minds on? i don't really have an answer. > > i also suspect that the marketing problem we are talking about here is a > lot more acute in the states. vocal-less (and, as it happens, soul-less) > records regularly make the top ten over here now. perhaps this suggests > the problem also lies with radio stations too. bbc radio one (the most > listened to station by young people over here) plays a huge range of music > and doesn't stick to one particular type as a lot of stations over there > do. > > > > robin.. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
