On 23/01/2012, at 12:34 PM, BGB wrote: > I was more giving it as an example of basically wanting to do one thing while > being obligated (due to prior work) to do something very different. >
Yeah, sorry for diverging :) I actually realised that. > say, if a musician (or scientist/programmer/...) has an established audience, > and is expected to produce "more of the same", they may have less personal > freedom to explore other alternatives (and doing so may alienate many of > their fans). an real-life example being, for example, Metallica incorporating > a lot of Country Western elements. > > in the example, the idea is that the producers may know full well that if > their promoted boy-band suddenly released an album containing lots of bass > and growling (rather than dancing around on stage being pretty-boys) then the > audience of teenage girls might be like "what the hell is this?" and become > disillusioned with the band (costing the producers a pile of money). > > this does not necessarily mean that an idea is fundamentally new or original > though. True... but in this case (as in the one you're paralleling - the one of VPRI) it'd likely attract a new audience that appreciate it. Julan
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