Originally Posted by caribarts
Originally Posted by warrior
Do you find that people in your island go soca because they know that they will not make money/get air play doing music they really love? What inpact do you think this has on the soca industry?
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I think that the question is extremely belittering to the genre, I doubt if artists are doing soca because they know they are not going to make anything of it. Come on what kind of question is this?
One of the problems with soca is that uptempo soca and outrageous soca has defined the genre for too long, this is actually killing the music. Alot of the music have become so ridiculous it is an outrage, the problem is that music that could move the genre to the place where it belongs in conjunciton to other genres go unrecognized.
One of the issues with soca, is that we need to come to an understanding of why people don't like soca music, remembering what is defining it today and seriously looking at that. |
I think my question could have been more clear. So I will re-ask it.
The are some people who love music and love a genre in particular (Rock, Rap, Trance..) but live in a soca island. So since there isn't that big a market for there music locally, during Carnival/Crop Over they sing soca just because they can make money doing music, even if it is not the music they love. In fact I have heard that some of these very people do not love soca.
The same is also true for some DJs. The place soca because they have to but they are Reggae/dancehall men or Rap heads.
What effect do you think this is having on the soca industry?
Last edited by warrior; 10-07-2008 at 03:10 PM..
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