Who is your audience?

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Who ends up hearing the music you make (assuming you don't make a living from it)?

― m bison, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

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― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:10 (eighteen years ago)

unhip indie kids

― electricsound, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

My and my bandmates' friends and families. Hah!

No, erm, I wish I knew who our audience was. Actually, no I don't. I don't care. The more you try to appeal to a specific audience, or write with specific people in mind, either 1) the worse your music gets or 2) the worse your writers block gets.

I'd like it if the cool nu-gazer kids liked us. But I can't deal with the strict genre-boundaries that so many of these genre music fans seem bound by. I dunno.

Good question, though.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

There are people out there beyond the lights?!?!

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

Thankfully, there's no way in hell we would EVER appeal to the likes of a cool nu-gazer. So it seems to be mostly middle-aged women, their nerdy 14 year old daughters (if they have them) and people who live in housing co-ops.

They turn out pretty regularly.

― everything, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

My audience is mostly small children and the elderly.

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://english.people.com.cn/200704/12/images/xinsrc_262040411083329610051.jpg

― Gorge, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone who will pay money to hear me sing.

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

It's amazing how one person's peer group is another's "ohmigod, hipsters, bleh" in terms of who they'd like to appeal to.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

Band 1: People who will be listening to AAA radio in five years but don't realize it yet

Band 2: Trendier literary/folkie types who like to think they have a "dark" side

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

people who went to college here in the late 90s + people from/in New Orleans + geeky brass players and Europeans who like jass music

― Jordan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Power electronics kids, old guard Industrial guys and a surprising number of middle aged underground collector types.

― petey_carnum, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

My audience: my cats, my brother, my fiancee, ilx. In that order.

― m bison, Saturday, 28 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

The 174,801,647 people in our extended network.

― S-, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

We have a cow that likes our groove...

― cli0019, Thursday, 3 May 2007 08:26 (eighteen years ago)

seemingly: russians, chinese people and 18 year old american girls*.

the last one being the one i frankly never expected at all

*if our extensive market research is to be believed

― tissp, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

italians, french, and english people, apparently. sad since we're in San Francisco

― akm, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

er... that picture is freaking me out more than that question.

― Andi Mags, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

This is a good question.

Not that I have an answer. My audience is people who find me interesting or baffling, I guess.

― Casuistry, Saturday, 19 May 2007 09:28 (seventeen years ago)

Judging by MySpace adds, a lot of females, and not so many Americans. Strangely, lots of people who have Battles' "Atlas" on their profile (at least when we added them.)

― Jubalique die Zitronen, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

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