Hey all,
I agree w/ what Sugar_N_Spice said:
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It also has to do with India's music not being as "cross-over", IMO, as Alicia's is...
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I was just thinking how I really don't think that India's music is marketable towards non-black people. Take for example her song "Brown Skin". A woman of non-black decent is not going to be able to relate to that. Or take Angie Stone's "Brotha"....um, will white/latin/asian women be able to relate to this? Perhaps...if they are into black men.....but I really don't think they'd
truly be able to feel the message it presents like black women will. So I think it makes sense that people are going to buy what they can relate to. With that in mind.....although the PR behind India is not that great, if she's "marketable" (I think everyone can be marketable), given her music, would her PR been able to market her outside the black community? Hmmmm
Another thought I had was what IF India does NOT want her music to be marketed towards either a specific ethnic group or towards people who listen to other genres of music? I don't know, I'm just looking at it from another level. I say this b/c everyone has an audience they are trying to reach. Some artists try to reach EVERYONE (or whoever will listen
). But there are some out there that may want to only reach certain people/ethnic groups. And if that's the case, why would their PR ppl market them towards EVERYONE? Why not just market towards the ppl the artist wants to reach? Now, I don't think India is trying to just reach certain people (i.e. black people, people who listen to r&b/soul), but considering her songs, it's a good possibility. Think about Angie Stone, Musiq Soulchild, Bilal, Eryka Badu and so on. Who do you think they are trying to reach? Once you think about that, think of where they are marketed. However, with Alicia, I don't think she's trying to reach certain groups b/c she's EVERYWHERE! I think anyone could like her music, even if she were marketed just to one particular group. But I don't think just anyone could like Bilal or Eryka. It's possible, but 9 out of 10 listeners are probably going to be from one group. But maybe that's what they want....only they know for sure.
Just some thoughts. Hope they made some kind of sense
