Post your favorite artists who just do their own thing with a certain vengeance. Most if not all of these types will at best achieve some sort of semi fame where you will always be able to find people who have no idea what you are talking about.
Die Antwoord, I don’t think there are words to explain. If at the end of the video you have no idea what just happened, thats ok.
Tom Waits, a living breathing legend who to this day is less well known than hundreds of “musicians” that aren’t fit to lick the ground hes walked on.
Mike Patton, From his punk days in Faith No More to his crooning with Lovage this guy just keeps breaking molds. Lovage "Book of the Month" (full video) - YouTube not sure what the hell is up with the video in this one but the song is fine.
Dan the Automator, a Tangent off of Mike Patton. (Hes the guy next to Mike in the last video) this guy is an underground legend, one of the masterminds behind Gorillaz, he also produced the above Lovage album, Deltron 3030 with Del tha Funky Homosapien, and Handsome Boy Modeling School with Prince Paul.
Let’s not forget the Beatles. It all seems so inevitable in hindsight, but it wasn’t. In each of their albums starting (arguably) with Rubber Soul, they ventured into territories with no guarantee the public would follow them there.
ETA: Would cats like Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman fit in this thread?
The video reminds me of my favorite ones from the first years of MTV (1981-82), by The Tubes, Gary Wright, David Bowie, and the like. Creative, odd, cheaply futuristic with a bit of nerdy soft-core “porn.”
Most pop musicians that really and truly are in it for the money. A band like, say, One Direction is going to disappear if their next few songs don’t chart, and if those guys can’t be creative on their own they’ll all have ‘normal’ jobs as soon as their money runs out. 5-10 years or so. They well and truly do give a fuck what you think. They have to, it’s their job. That goes for most (many? a lot of?) ‘pop’ acts.
As a Zappa fan I must disagree. Frank hated his humorous lyrics even going so far as name an album Does Humor Belong In Music? and the Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar series. If he truly didn’t care what his fans thought he wouldn’t have continued with the humorous songs which were his most commercially successful works but feelings aside, he kept churning them out.
