The Ultimate Contradiction

[MarvinThePipe]

Everyone keeps waiting for Ryan to make that one album, you know, the one that FINALLY acts as his "breakthrough"; for us true believers admire his prolific wizardry to the point that its a complete tragedy that such blatant talent can go entirely unrecognized by the masses, right?

But is that really what you, me, we or Ryan himself wants? I doubt it. Its the razor's edge that we love. Will he fail, or rather, how many more times will he fail, and just how beautiful is each one of these failures in its own right?

Long live the succesfull struggling artist.

[Sydneyfan]

Depends on what you mean by "breakthrough". Easy Tiger had so many bonus tracks that I lost count and interest. It was hardly the struggling indie artist scene. Gold was pretty successful too.

It all depends on what you define as commercial success I suppose.

[Faded Rose]

I don't think Ryan is a struggling artist. He tried or was touted around as going to be "the next big thing" earlier in his career and it never quite came off. I don't think it ever will. I think he will stay in the "niche" market place with a hard core fan base. I think his sound is generally too country to have main stream appeal.

I would have thought he'd be pretty happy as he is quite honestly.

[timmyhoover]

I don't think Ryan is a struggling artist. He tried or was touted around as going to be "the next big thing" earlier in his career and it never quite came off. I don't think it ever will. I think he will stay in the "niche" market place with a hard core fan base. I think his sound is generally too country to have main stream appeal.

I would have thought he'd be pretty happy as he is quite honestly.


to country to have mainstream appeal. ????

the winners from American Idol are ending up making tons of cash doing the CMT thing

[Rob]

Easy Tiger debuted at number 7 here in the US.

He sold 134,000 copies worldwide in the first two weeks.

[FrigidRoses]

to country to have mainstream appeal. ????

the winners from American Idol are ending up making tons of cash doing the CMT thing

But that's like pretend country.

[ewok.online]

to country to have mainstream appeal. ????

the winners from American Idol are ending up making tons of cash doing the CMT thing

i have yet to see anything worthwhile (except Kelly!) out of AI.
though i bet a reason a lot of them are going to CMT-type things are because who watches the fox network?
right-wing NASCAR watchin, Busch drinkin', pickup truck drivin folk.
now, i may be over generalizing, but that is 100% how it is around here.

so therefore, the people who voted them up the ranks on AI will then listen to them on the country radio stations, and then maybe buy the record.
wham.


But that's like pretend country.

hollar!

[Layne]

[QUOTE=ewok.online;324574]i have yet to see anything worthwhile (except Kelly!) out of AI.
though i bet a reason a lot of them are going to CMT-type things are because who watches the fox network?
right-wing NASCAR watchin, Busch drinkin', pickup truck drivin folk.
now, i may be over generalizing, but that it 100% how it is around here.

so therefore, the people who voted them up the ranks on AI will then listen to them on the country radio stations, and then maybe buy the record.
wham.




ehh I wouldn't go that far....Carrie Underwood is insanely popular

but I understand what you're saying, I live in Missouir man, shit gets old

I mean St.Louis is that hipster-ish even, its just a bunch of emos and scenesters and coutry people

ahahhha look at this picture I found though, it cracks me up
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h169/layne1_2006/emo.jpg

[ewok.online]

i meatn worthwhile in a musical sense, not a sales sense, because i loves me some Kelly.

but i totally get what you're saying, man.

[Faded Rose]

Maybe "alt-country" has more mainstream appeal in the US. Here in the UK personally I know very few people (well one actually) who like the type of sound that Ryan is putting out. Most of the kids like the child are into what I call "Emo-metal" or the bands that appear in Kerrang (Is that right?).

Ryan can debut at whatever number in the charts (how long did he stay there by the way and 134,000 copies is not that many and ET is his most commercial album to date) but I still don't think he's mainstream and to be honest I think it would be a shame if he sold his soul for megastardom.

[burgerqueen]

No, I really don't know anybody else who likes Ryan. I've kinda gotten my husband to change his opinion a bit, but he really didn't have much of a choice.:lol I'm always trying to push him but it's never gotten me anywhere.

I don't think he will ever have the mega stardom and I kinda like that. I wouldn't want to have to go see him play in a ginormous arena. Plus, I don't think he'd deal with it very well.