BBC 6 Music - The Great Debate Is the music business giving up on teenagers?

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Is the music business giving up on teenagers?

― Frances Moreland, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i think all that is happening is that the divides are blurring resulting in more consumer equality represented in the charts. what with society being so obsessed with youth preservation ('you're old at 30...25...18...') as well as a lesser counter-weight on pushing people from childhood to young adulthood as fast as possible (your latest tabloid article about 12 year olds indulging in sex and drugs) and cultural shifts which seem as much natural as they are ushered by technology. it's not so much about older people (over 40s) trying to be cool as it is just realising it's perfectly ok for them to keep an interest in popular music, computer games and other areas previously associated primarily with teenagers or kids.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree. Teenagers are overrated. I mean you can act young till your 50, when biologically your body starts breaking down.

― Cacaman Flores, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

And while the industry may be able to smile smugly at their new, middle-aged chums for a while yet, one day fairly soon 50 Quid Bloke won’t be buying any albums at all. Because he’ll be dead.

And then the neglected teenage market will do what it does best: sneer in your face and walk away laughing.

Haha dead old Norah Jones fans

― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I shouldn't really still be surprised to find such UTTER FCUKWITTERY from a "music" "journalist", but COME ON! Do some MATHS!

The people who are middle aged people now will, yes, become older, and "fairly soon", like in 30 years, on average, will be dead. True enough. And when that happens, what age do you think the people who are teenagers NOW will be eh? YOU BLOODY IDIOT.

CHRIST!

― MJ Hibbett, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

what stevem said.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Besides which, if the MB is giving up on teenagers, just see if you can get signed by Polydor if you're over 30 making music for the 45-55 age bracket.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Zero 7's new album has done surprisingly well in it's first week of release but in recent light i strongly suspect the bulk of it's sales are coming from over 30s (this would've been less the case with 'Simple Things' because they were riding on the youthy trendy Air-esque chill out popularity of 2000/01, whether they liked it or not) - 'When It Falls' is well produced but bland as fuck, and this act now fit pretty nicely with Turin Brakes, Dido, Norah, Damien Rice and what have you in this 'new' demograph bracket. i think Air have managed to stay out of this by being just that weirder (and it works).

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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