I don’t fucking care. They can love it, I don’t have to. Yes, you can make money in a cover band. I prefer not to, and fortunately I have enough other marketable skills that I don’t have to.
I’d have to be in an amazingly successful cover band to match my current paycheck. So, no.
It’s not a silly statement. The guy was marketed like no one else. He was basically marketed from birth, and was actually good at participating in his own marketing.
A huge number of people wish they had the money and time to market themselves the way Jackson was. Jackson produced generic pop songs. The only thing that makes that record actually stand out is the marketing, such as the videos.
Yep, if the record was absolute crap, it would have bombed no matter how much they put into the marketing. This was an average record that had a person who was very skilled at marketing participating in it’s creation and media push. Besides, I’m not talking about profit.