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Originally Posted by allrevvedup
And the stones have subsequently worked with Jack White and Christina Aguilera on Shine a light, which shows that Jagger & Co. know that they have to remain 'hip' and to keep a young audience because they cannot maintain sales on their own.
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Shine A Light also features Buddy Guy, Jack White is a musician who apparently is influenced by "old" music (see the documentary
It Might Get Loud) and I doubt that a duet with Christina Aguilera during a live show really makes a big difference with regard to album sales. I don't think that the Stones depend on younger artists to "remain hip". They might not be as popular and influential as they were in the 1960s and 1970s but they've never had problems to attract an audience, people come to their shows in spite of high ticket prices and I think at this point in time they don't have to bother about being "hip". Meat's duet with Marion Raven appeared more as a deperate attempt to gain attention to me (regardless of who was responsible for that) than Mick Jagger singing with Christina Aguilera.
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Originally Posted by allrevvedup
Aerosmith, and Steven Tyler in particular, have been pushing the pop ballad very hard in the faces of their fans
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I rather listen to songs like
Rag Doll 
than to
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing and the like. (Isn't that a Diane Warren song, by the way?
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Originally Posted by allrevvedup
As for the apprentice (you see I Can get back on topic  ) I would suggest Gary Busey will be recognised more for being on this show in the next 6 months than any of the films that he worked on. |
I hope that won't happen to Meat.
I'd rather see him in another great movie like
Fight Club or a mean little flick like
Pelts than on
Celebrity Apprentice. A world in which artists gain recognition rather via such TV shows than because of their actual talents is a sad one, in my opinion.