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Kodachi -> RE: Why are P.O.D not huge? They been going longer than LinKin ParK?? (6/18/2008 12:08:23 AM)
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Somebody prolly said it already but I didn't read (Sowwy!) Firstly I love both Linkin Park and POD the same. They're both my number one favorite band swaying about on that little tiny space of a pedastal I give them. (11 guys, one small pin head. Tricky.) I'm on both of the street teams and I hear just as much crap from both sides.
Here's a secret of what makes and breaks a band: Promoting.
Okie dokie, Linku Parkie. Great band, great sound. Great investment when you got whiny teens to sap. That's what WB thought when they signed the band as is. For the WB, until Harry Potter, Linkin Park's a Godsend. They see money in their lyrics and soon-to-be projected image so time to push push push! It's not LP fault that they can connect well enough with a crowd that's not religious or pushing too many basic barriers. Go ahead, slit your wrists if you like, shoot up schools, cut, just buy our cd while you're at it. It ain't hurtin nobody and definitely ain't making much more important people, not whiny teens, mad. A perfect fit pretty much. But they aren't corporation made, they've fought with that endlessly. But they have a good fan base that they could run on their own steam if anything were to happen.
P.O.D. now. This is where you gotta love America and it's fake, double standards, hypocritical, got-a-burning-need-to-put-someone-in-a-box. P.O.D. isn't the stereotypical God-lovin band that has nothing beyond Jesus in their lyrics. That's not what the papers and media are saying tho. They talk about a particular religion, that ain't good. Too many important people to piss off...despite the fact that that's not all they talk about. That leaves P.O.D. in a much smaller box than Linkin Park sadly, who has two versions of some of the videos they do (A Europe version and a US version. Guess which one is more tame. It ain't the European's!) because of content. Then you have that odd gray space P.O.D is in. They're too Christian for normal air (which is crap. I'm Pagan and I'm not offended at all. Those weed-lauding songs tho, that's gotta go.) and not Christian enough for Christian air (Translation: they ain't stereotypical enough yet and prolly wouldn't know where to put the band because of Traa...and Sonny...and Wuv...and Marcos, what a predicament.). Where would you put a band in the land of no stones? On small stations where people may not hear them.
Then you have the music company at hand: Atlantic and the WB - who owns Atlantic and plenty other major labels - and there's nothing they love more than money. Probably think slavery is a good idea of enterprise, why should people get fussy? They're known now for screwing good artists over somehow. They tried to do it to both P.O.D. and Linkin Park as well as other artists who's been at it for a while. Save money to give to the newest, far less talented acts. P.O.D. and LP reacted differently due to circumstances and the stakes. LP is prolly a mistake WB will never make again: Put 10% of the company money on a single thing like a band. Apparently Chester, Mike, Joe, Rob, Brad and Phoenix ain't as dumb as the company thought and Linkin Park started breaking rules all over the place to drag down WB financially (I think anyone would miss a few millions or billions) until they knocked off the cheap tricks because LP made sure to put their own men in charge of the different facets of running a band, themselves.
P.O.D., because of their already muted standpoint, didn't have it so easy but got out alive nonetheless. Atlantic was screwing over anyone who had more or nearly 10 years in the business because they wanted to make money, not music. P.O.D. has a strong promotion crew, yes, but even us few ain't enough when a company wants to pull the plug. Which they have tried. Numerous times. What's been keeping P.O.D. afloat is the promo crew.
Why does it boil down to promotion or how? Real easy. Here's an example: Matisyahu (If I misspelled the man's name, I'm really sorry). Around my area, P.O.D. won't even be played on some stations but it's like Linkin Park practically owns every blade of grass and every coffee grain. So guess my surprise when Matisyahu is playing. Non-stop at that. Seriously high and awesome on the charts and the songs are about as religious as you get. Then after six months that was the last you heard of him. It was like he never exisited. He ran his course and people can't stand music with super real convictions for long. Ask the station to play him and they won't. He was popular for a moment and now that moment's long gone. No Hot Topic shirts or wallets, barely any promotions for his tours or none at all, no banners, big signings all over America, blah blah blah.
That's the music business for you. They don't care about what's music and what's not. They're more concerned about money and red tape. That's why on my radio, you won't hear Godsmack either (They're Wiccan) and Slipknot nearly got the ax if they didn't change their symbol. HIM too. Think about it. Don't even get started about war chants either. Rage was the most you were going to get for a while. (For LP fans, how much have you heard "Bleed It Out" but no "Little Things Give you Away" or "Hands Held High"? Too Political. Gonna get people thinking and a liiiiittle pissed) But they're so powerful that it's only five or so companies that controls what you hear, see and think about. What's worse is that now these companies think alike so that's a complete barring for anyone trying not to be or naturally is not mainstream. Yet I can tell you this, if P.O.D. sold out and cut Jesus out like people told them to, they would be perfectly fine. Even Linkin Park is disgusted by the thought of this. The Music Business is a terrible place and filled with horrible people and corporate scheme. Look at it all from a removed point of view, ask around and you'll see it too how much everything is a puppet show and we're the puppets.
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