Just a little bit longer, please.

Nick

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    I'm kind of greedy when it comes to music. I like being the only person I know who listens to a particular band or particular artist. I like being the only person I know who even knows of their existence. I don't like it when they make it big, or when people start picking up wind. I know that that's selfish of me, but it felt so good to know that I was the only one I knew who knew of them and was aware of their talents. I'm sure some of you must have felt that about a least one artist. Whether they made it big and suddenly everyone knew their name, or whether they just got a little more acknowledgement among the people you knew, and you can't help but think in the back of your head "Heh. I knew about ___ before you damn it!"

    For the sake of not sounding selfish, I'm going to change the original question that I was going to post to something a little more appropriate. Who are artists/bands you wish you could have kept to yourself for just a little longer?
     
    I don't ever think of this. I always want what is best for the band. I would much rather my favourite bands got a lot more exposure, that way they would get more money, be able to make more albums, etc. If the entire world and the billboard charts liked the same bands I do, I would be happy. I'm the total opposite, I ask people if they know a certain band and they say no. I now deliberately say a relatively mainstream band in the hope someone will recognise them, I get to the topic of music and I ask "oh have you heard about Cocteau Twins?" which are not even underground, and the reply is "no who the hell are they?" it's ****ing sad and I can't talk about music with anybody, because they don't know of a single band outside of the top 40. Most people only know about 4 David Bowie songs, that's how bad it has got.

    What is far more annoying than having everyone love my favourite band, is having everyone love bands that are ****. The top 40 charts are absolute bullcrap, people with no talent whatsoever are getting thousands of dollars for doing nothing but churn out ******** "music" and it's a sad reflection on our society. Why does Lil Wayne earn so much when Lil B earns nothing in comparison? The music industry is piss poor, and it's because of the piss poor intellect of the general public. Now I'm not saying everything in the top 40 is bad, far from it, I love a lot of top 40 artists; just when you claim to love music and you ONLY know of the top 40, then you're a god-damn liar.
     
    Hipster.

    Nah, I've thought this too, but not in any sort of bitter fashion. The thought has crossed my mind that I liked this television show (I'm adapting this to TV because I'm not into music enough to have had this experience there) before it was the huge phenomenon it ended up being, but more in a "hey that's kinda cool, go me" sort of way, not in a "ugh everybody is getting in on my special thing" kind of way.

    If something is good, I want everybody to know. I don't want to keep it to myself. I am with Vendak entirely on this one.
     
    I guess I'm a bit of a hipster then for saying I think the exact same thing! x(
    And it ticks me off when people hop on it just for the sake of being popular or doing what's "in" at the time... I usually just stop liking it as much, or stop liking it publicly, and wait for it to die down a bit before I go fangirl on it again. :P
     
    I do the opposite thing. When I listen to a band none of my friends seems to know about, I often try to convince them to finally give them a listen, so they, too, can experience the awesomeness of that band.
    ... which usually doesn't happen.
     
    The thing I like about unknown bands is being able to share them with friends and having friends share them with me. It makes listening to the music a little more special when you think that it was a friend who first introduced it to you. Can't do that when it's a name everyone knows.

    Oh, wait, there's a question. I can't think of a band that I knew about first that others then found out about. As much as I like music I'm not someone who often finds things first and then shares them with people. I'm usually on the receiving end of that.
     
    To also divert the question away from music, I have a not-entirely-undeserved reputation amongst my real life friends as being something of a film and TV snob. I like foreign films and TV shows that advertise themselves as comedies but aren't actually funny but are kinda deep in a philosophical sorta way and mostly stuff that doesn't even make it to UK shores. I don't like Transformers and talent competitions and 'structured reality' shows like the rest of my friends. It's not a big deal, but it means I don't normally recommend stuff to my friends; not because I want to keep it to myself, but because I don't think they'd like what I like. That's served me well for most of my entertainment-watching life, but then a little over last year, some of my friends discovered this TV show called Community. If you've seen it, you'll know how relatively inaccessible it is to newcomers in comparison to most television comedies, relying heavily on in-jokes and obscure pop culture references rather than broad set up/punchline gags. And when they kept watching, it did make me feel a little weird... but only a little. After a while, it was nice having someone else - not on the internet - to talk about the show with. It was a good thing, overall, which is always nice!
     
    I feel somewhat this way about gameplay styles and equipment setups and the like in video games, like how I run a W1200 w/double tap class in CoD4... but music? No.
     
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    I usually don't feel this in a bitter way. More of a "haha I knew them first!" feeling which is awesome. It happened with Foster the People. I agree with Vendak though on this one, so no point in reiterating what's been said best.
     
    ^Yeah, I like knowing that I knew of them first too, but I don't like that bitter feeling that I am the only one who knows of their existence...that's kind of odd to me. Who cares if others like the group/artist? I love it when I get friends or other people into an artist I like! I've never understood that logic of being the only person who likes them...
     
    I don't really care one way or the other when it comes to my music or shows. I'm not listening to them because they are a big name in the industry; and I am not listening to them because no one knows of them. I am listening to them because their music is appealing to me. So if they stay small or get huge, it doesn't matter much to me at all (although like Vendak and Shining Raichu said, it is nice when they get big because then they can afford to make more albums. xD). So no, I can't think of any artists I wanted to keep to myself.
     
    Agreeing with Vendak's post. I tend to like sharing songs and whatnot that I like (hence why I started a music blog in part), and mostly care about if the song sounds good rather than who made it and if they're known yet. In fact I'd say I don't care about if the band is big or small, but if they do good music I'll likely be sharing that with others.
     
    Ugh! This happens with my friends. I'll tell them about a band or artist they will go "Yeah, yeah. awesome. don't care" Then they find out about them and go on and on about them. Quite annoying actually. But sometimes artist who have deep messages in their songs hit mainstream then have to watch what they say. It ruins them actually, i was bitterly disappointed with Bliss N Eso's album "Running on Air" after they started to become well known and mainstream in Australia.
     
    Ugh! This happens with my friends. I'll tell them about a band or artist they will go "Yeah, yeah. awesome. don't care" Then they find out about them and go on and on about them. Quite annoying actually. But sometimes artist who have deep messages in their songs hit mainstream then have to watch what they say. It ruins them actually, i was bitterly disappointed with Bliss N Eso's album "Running on Air" after they started to become well known and mainstream in Australia.
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    Oh, I hate that too. Tell someone about this awesome band, they don't care, they actually for once hear a song by said band, then love them, and you're just like "dude, I told you to listen to them a friggin month ago."

    And ohhhh, you brought in the m word...mainstream. Kinda hate that word. But I get what you're saying. I don't think it lowers the quality of an artist if they're suddenly in the mainstream. It ruins the fans because of that mainstream stereotype. They think it's suddenly trash after that artist becomes more well known. Kings of Leon is a prime example. "o only by da nite sux becuz its so mintsrem YOOTH N YUNG MANHOD AL DA WAY" and I'm just like "have you even listened to anything from only by the night that isn't use somebody or sex on fire?" -sigh- OKAY rant is over lmfao. But you know, if they do have to watch what they say more...I'm sure they can be even MORE deep by finding even more subtle and cryptic ways of sneaking their message into a song.

    tl;dr fans will always complain and there's nothing you can do about it.
     
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