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Originally Posted by almacg
So, you don't care about what people think? You will because it's people who decide what music rises the ranks and gets played. You can't actually tell me that you don't mind if all your work stays on your computer with nobody but your immediate friends and family hearing it, as opposed to being critically acclaimed by a world-wide audience.
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If you want to make MONEY, you aren't going to try to make ART, you'll try to make MONEY.
MONEY lies in trends, popular stuff, etc etc. Then it doesn't matter what the composer wants, it matters what the target demographic wants.
I for one don't mind if all my work isn't performed (despite the fact it has been) if it means doing crap I don't want to do, or write what I don't want to write. I have the final say on how my music sounds like, screw what anyone else thinks or says, period.
So what if I don't become "famous" so what if I don't get loads of moneys? That's not why I write music at all, and I feel sorry for anyone who has this as their ultimate goal since chances are, it's mighty difficult to "get anywhere" unless you do the typical show business dance & game, and even then usually getting off the ground may as well take years or may never happen.
If your emphasis is on making money or pleasing audiences, you have your work cut out for you. Watch popular movies, see what the demographics consume, and just recycle and sell it back to them. It's pretty simple.
PS: To further push the point home, there is no middle ground between "what the audience wants" and the composer wants. If there is, it's by chance or the composer is specifically shooting to please the audience. But, really now, isn't this all obvious?