{"id":2518,"date":"2011-01-19T21:22:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2011-01-19T21:22:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:22:03","slug":"likethesun-what-people-fail-to-realize-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/likethesun.tumblr.com\/post\/2829656935\/what-people-fail-to-realize-is-that-these-people\" target=\"_blank\">likethesun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What people fail to realize is that these people, these mainstream \u2018artists\u2019 are signed to contracts that basically make them into puppets of fame. Why do you think there\u2019s such a similar pattern in all mainstream songs or artists? Sex, going clubbing, money\u2026 colorful and dramatic music videos\/clothing. It\u2019s what sells, and of course that\u2019s the main goal of these music businesses. Being an artist is merely being yourself because we\u2019re all naturally unique. That\u2019s why I feel it is so illusory for people to believe that these mainstream people are artists because they act upon what the masses want from them, rather than personally self-expressing themselves, resulting in a mass population of people who do the same thing and feel ashamed if they don\u2019t fit up to those kinds of standards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some great points. I think there are some mainstream artists which are truly unique, but I think this touches on the point why I&#8217;m uninterested in a lot of mainstream music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>likethesun: What people fail to realize is that these people, these mainstream \u2018artists\u2019 are signed to contracts that basically make them into puppets of fame. Why do you think there\u2019s such a similar pattern in all mainstream songs or artists? Sex, going clubbing, money\u2026 colorful and dramatic music videos\/clothing. It\u2019s what sells, and of course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,2280,1909,603,2031],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artists","tag-fame","tag-mainstream","tag-music","tag-unique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}