From fabiomacedo Sent Wed, Nov 26th 1997, 14:42
From fabiomacedo Sent Wed, Nov 26th 1997, 14:42
> >Explain how Prodigy makes themselves known. If Liam Howlett's main purpose was >to make himself popuular, like you say, than why is it a large percentage of >people who have heard (of) Prodigy don't actually know who the Prodigy is? > Another thing: for each 'new Prodigy fan' that got into them because of the hairdo, the more "rocker" sound and the punk visual, there are 5, 6 MTV viewers that hates them for the same reasons. I don't think that it was a very good way of looking, if we're talking about marketing. Come on. The Prodigy is selling more because of some reasons that don't have anything to do with marketing and selling out: 1 - their records are better distributed now (Experience... and Music... was only released here this year, I had to pay a little fortune to import them...); 2 - the sound is a little bit 'easier' to recognize for rock fans. It doesn't exactly mean that the sound is 'poor' -- it's just a question of using another structure for the songs. I prefer the old Prodigy, for instance, but I don't think Fat Of The Land is tottaly crap -- just some tracks sounds obvious, like the L7's "Fuel My Fire". 3 - Prodigy always had very good selling singles, or this is what I read about them since "Charly". I think that 90% of the people who bought "Out Of Space" would buy the next single without listening very much and so on, until the band records some big crap that sounded like Madonna. And this didn't happen, no matter what jokes you do with them. So it's normal for the Prodigy to sell more and more, since fans always bring new fans. But for ending this, let me be a little profetic. The next Prodigy release will do very bad in the charts. They won't piss off this discussion of early fans getting bored and worried about them. Just wait a little bit more to jugde Prodigy. Cheers Fabio Macedo Webdesigner - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx >== Chris Layne =============================== Flames to my private email == >== xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xx.xx.xx ====== http://www.nervosa.sf.ca.us/~coredump == >