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[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Aiming for radio appeal and catering to the masses is ok, as long as you do it from the start.

Every musician/band I know of that changed their sound to be more radio friendly has given up their own sound.

The first example that comes to mind would be Kevin Parker; the first two Tame Impala albums are amazing, but since then he went full pop. It worked for a few songs, but recently his features in other songs were better than his own stuff (i.e. New Gold by Gorillaz and Neverender by Justice) IMO.

As far as AC/DC goes, I grew up with Black Ice, which is a decent album (albeit a bit bloated) but nothing I would necessarily would want to revisit any time soon. Pretty much all of their (popular) stuff sounds so big, yet lacks real depth in my opinion.

this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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