Re: Why TRS Is Not A Success

[giliath@UTKVX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Nicholson, Christopher)]

In article <29722.9402170504@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, rjc@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk writes...
>In article <Pine.3.05.9402161732.A18118-c100000@atlas.cs.upei.ca>, Fiona McQuarrie (fm) writes:
> 
>fm> Flame me now and believe me later....
> 
>No flame, but I'm at a total loss as to why you think it should matter
>how TRS behaved in the charts. Most everything I listen to regularly
>has never been anywhere near the charts, by those standards TRS is a
>blazing commercial success. Stayed in the UK charts long enough and
>high enough to be down right embarassing to buy.
> 
>I suspect it wouldn't be possible for KaTe to have a big single hit in
>the US with anything that we wouldn't find embarassing. It would have
>to be aimed squarely at the single buying public, which means 13 year
>olds. On the whole, I'd be happier for the effort to go into songs
>aimed at, er, slightly more mature listeners :-).
> 
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>rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk		Where's me zimmer frame...
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> 
> 
Couldn't have said it better myself!  Who gives a crap how well Kate's albums
do commercially?  I mean I wish her all the best financially, but if her music
pleased the lowest common denominator it would amost certainly suck!!  And
someone was talking about Tori Amos and touring- I think Kate has done
phenomenonally well seeing as how she doesn't tour.  If Tori marketed herself the
same manner as Kate would she do as well?