Listening With Context

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Following up from the poll (poor old Incubus)

Do you carry in your head an idea of the "average listener" as any kind of reference point? Did you ever? (whether you defined yrself for or against her/him)

aka - who ARE these "masses", anyway?

Comments

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Do you mean the average Last FM listener or just the average music listener? The latter is surely impossible to define because almost everyone listens to music of some kind (even if it's classical, folk etc.) so it's like asking who is the average person - the answer is probably a 30 year old transexual (well, you can't say they are male or female).