View Single Post Old 08-21-2009, 08:40 PM Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Seminole, Florida Posts: 14,525 Default Re: Pop Music
in General  Originally Posted by thelimpingtoad View Post So i
just thought of something that i feel is very relavent to this
discussion... I am a web designer/developer... i started as an
artist and decided to persue commercial art as my occupation.
The fields of music and art are inter-related as they are both
forms of art, so is dance and theater etc. So i guess the thing
is, do you consider commercial art the same way you consider
pop-music? I mean do you criticize commercial photographers,
graphic designers, movie/tv actors and web designers and say
they aren't true artists because they chose to be successful at
their jobs? I mean i could be a flat-broke fine-artist or i
could be a moderately succesful commercial artist... yes i have
to sell-out some sense of artistic integrity but at the end of
the day i know i did my job and made money doing it. In an ideal
world people wouldn't