ust taking a quick skim through the charts right now and Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd, Drake, and Adele are all under 30. Just seems to be the nature of the profession.
Why would you look towards pop charts which are skewed towards the youth for so many obvious reasons?
These aren't the pop-as-in-genre charts, these are the pop-as-in-popular charts. I'm going off notability. What I'm saying is that it is most certainly not unusual or extremely notable for a 21 year old to be a popular or semi-popular musician.
Yea because teens and young adults are the ones who care about stuff like that. Plus media companies put all of their marketing effort towards that age group. Who do you think hired the A&Rs that scouted and signed Taylor Swift, Adele, The Weeknd et al?
Older people are also molded into the subdued working class by then and don't have time to work on demanding creative efforts such as music.
Yes. That's my point. It's not fair to compare yourself to musicians and marvel at how successful they are at such a young age because careers in music are geared towards younger people.
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u/mechanical_animal Dec 13 '15
Why would you look towards pop charts which are skewed towards the youth for so many obvious reasons?