Target Audience

Why it's Pop of course!?  Hah!
 
Artist ---> Song ---> Target listener
 
Whatever it takes to inspire someone ... anyone ... with musicality?!  Or are you merely ranting like me?
 
Or is it more simple or complex than that?  (You artists, noobs, producers, etc.)
 
Please cast your critical vote on your personal target audiences (no matter how vague)! 

"international metal scene"

Is that anything like the Chitlin Circuit?

My target audience is me... if I don't find it interesting... why would anyone else?

Rockers,pop rockers,blues rockers,instrumental rock,and to a lesser degree metalheads.Having listed my target audience(s),I agree with mike,if I don't think something I write is good or interesting,why would anybody else.I mainly write music in the styles I listed,thats also mostly what i listen to.

In my opinion, if you have a "target audience", you are not an artist, you are just pushing "product".  That being said, my "target audience" is myself.  That is who I write music for.  If anyone else likes it, great.  If not, well, too bad.  If you are in music for the money, you're in it for the wrong reason.  I've had someone, another musician, tell me I'm not a "real" musician because I have a day job...that I am a "weekend hack".  I disagree.  Because of my day job, I am finacially free to make "music for music's sake".  A person who prides himself on making a living from music, usually has to play music that they don't really enjoy in order to make ends meet.  I like my way better...but, to each his own.

I'm afraid that if I post my target audience I'll be violating the TOS.  from that statement most of you can probably figure out what I mean.

LOL!  thanks Matt!  I like your music as well, although come to think of it I haven't heard anything lately - I'll have to go check your soundclick out and see if you've got some stuff up that I haven't heard!

i like freaks.

 I think most musicians have a style of music they identify with,are influenced by, and that they are comfortable writing in,these things kind of indicate who your audience is,wether intentional or not.I also think that reguardless of the genra you're writing in,your influences tend to show up in one way or another,this could broaden your audience.

StevenMikel, all the time!  My target keeps shifting (God, man, wifey, kid, baby, discoid, beats, R&B, etc.)!  I've observed that maybe 25-50%+/- artists go from discoid to metal genres while gleefully stating they have no target. 

LOL!  I won't deny ... To deny having a target audience may be 'difficult' for me to deny! 

Some may be confusing art with politics and/or dementia.

Artist (person) ---> Song ---> Target listener (persons)

I bet if I listen to your music, metal, rock, or whatever ... your target persons will become blatantly obvious (to my ears) ... us wild and wacky ranters that we all are ... are paintings/music must be heard by others ... some more than others.

If I perform all alone in solitary confinement then "I" am miserable.  I must love one another!

I'm no extravert: Forgetting all the glamour and money, artists vent deep feelings (if you will).  Many of those incoherent feelings are poetic ... and have signification to be listened to by other persons.

Are you singing privately 'just to yourself'? ... then why should you ever want another to listen?  Yeh! 

Does not even dementia itself command an audience in public ... like nursing homes?  Everyone groans to be heard, IIRC.

While 'sounding cool', I doubt "I" am the sole target.  Some of you producers and artists may boldly state "I", when you're 'hopeful' target may be both the singer and pop target for that singer.  At least your psychoacoustics might bend a bit toward 'what the audience hears'.

Is not singing a form of communication?  I know my songs suck when I don't try to please others.

Now admittedly: you and I are both visible and invisible 'human beings' ... mostly invisible:  Lonely and seeking venue.

IOWs, If I gave my song to a mixer/producer ... I'd question his "I" ... at least hoping that he 'meant' "I" as the pop scene for my genre.

And you're not an artist/performer if you don't have a listener-audience?

seriously, i like the freaks.
give me the freaks.

It's the coolest-looking/easiest one to windmill.

skullsession


It's the coolest-looking/easiest one to windmill.

Naw, G is better for that.  Your 2nd finger anchors the lowest string, your pinky holds the higher string down, and hooking your thumb over the top holds the neck firmly in place while clamping both sides of the fretboard evenly.  Holding the guitar steady will keep you from doing a "Pete Townshend" and putting the whammy bar through your right hand.

You have a talent, Philip, for suggesting the most thought-provoking topics. I had to think about it, and though it sounds morbid I have to say in all honesty that my target audience is everyone who will be attending my funeral. I plan to leave a stack of CDs to be handed out on that occasion.