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Posted by dalecooper, Mon Mar-07-11 08:55 AM
>these corporate execs are basically pulling the switcheroo on
>us now; before they were selling a fantasy, but when people
>stopped being enthralled with that fantasy (hood niggers) now
>they're selling their reality because it's what they know the
>best (femenine ass rappers)

What they're selling is what they think will sell. It's just a game of follow the trend. We've been here before. Hair metal was feminized (lipstick, tight pants, lots of skin showing, long and teased hair), then alternative hard rock and metal was a response to that. Disco was feminized, then the stuff responding to disco was the other way around. You want to know what record execs are selling? Whatever they think will make a buck. They don't create the trends, they just exploit them (for the most part - there are exceptions, but even in those cases it's usually just an amplification effect rather than them creating a brand-new trend from whole cloth). The better ones see it coming before it's even a trend. But no, they're not sitting around having gay sex in their offices and thinking, "You know what America would buy right now? THIS!"