A great song is not just something to take up space on a Web site next to stock market quotes and baseball scores. The DEN shows look like art if you're not paying attention, but they forgot to hire anyone to be creative. So they ended up with a lot of content nobody wants to see because they thought they could avoid dealing with defiant and moody personalities. Because they were arrogant. And because they were conformists.
Artists have to deal with business people and business people have to deal with artists.
We hate each other. Let's create companies of mediators. Every single artist who makes records believes and hopes that they give you something that will transform your life. I don't know if an artist can last by meeting the current public taste, the taste from the last quarterly report. I don't think you can last by following demographics and carefully meeting expectations.