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What I am asking, and I would like to hear input from you fellow sonicheads, is, In today's fragmented popular culture, where niche movies,a nd niche music, and niche TV shows are the norm, and where the outlets for music, film, and TV are more expansive and fragmented than ever, will there ever be another wholesale musical sensation?
Even Hip Hop, the strongest new musical idiom of the past 30 years, has never gotten to have the overwhelming general public love that musical acts like elvis, the beatles, and Michael Jackson had.
Even the biggest of modern era pop stars sell far far less than what would have been the case back when regular TV had 7 channels and cable TV had just 50 or so channels. Now, with 300+ channels on TV, statelite radio, internet radio, streaming radio, regular airwaves radio NEVER playing anything new, is mass consciousness love just an impossibility to achieve?
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