words@brothersgibb.com message digest 05/13/2013 18:01 (#2013-4195)
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Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 09:19:36 -0700
From: Yasmine Ghulamali <yasdaz17@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: Really.. Why was This?
I have always believed that at least part of the reason why they were
always undervalued is that they never, in my opinion, managed to figure
out how to get publicity from serious music writers and magazines. To
name one obvious example, during the whole fever period, instead of
capitalizing on their new found cred, they were busy being featured on
teen mags. Now, I realize that they might have been trying all these
years and not succeeding and that there were "serious" articles, etc...
over the years, especially in '97, for example. I also think their
reluctance to do interviews where they revealed themselves hurt them.
If all an interviewer is going to get is regurgitated pablum, why would
they take you seriously? They needed to open up and not be so protective
of themselves if they wanted in depth articles by important writers.
I am also realizing that their own emphasis on their writing as
commercial, not artistic, hurt. If you don't believe you are a serious
artist, why would others? If only they have positioned themselves
differently, even if they felt the new position was not true, they might
have had a different outcome.
Of course we will never really know what went on behind the scenes, both
with them and the publications and writers they might have wanted to
speak to. However, I think there were things they could have done
differently, alas; I also think their undereducated, working class
background hurt them with this. One interesting thing that I have noted
over the years is that from the beginning, not just after Fever, they
were pegged as a guilty pleasure, as the "Danielle Steel of music", if
you will. Yasmine
On 12/05/2013 3:01 PM, Terry Tucker wrote:
> I believe it was Sal who said sometime back in early July that he thought the Bee Gees were underated, underappreciated, and misunderstood.
>
> I totally agree with that especially the misunderstood part. But really why could they never get that recognition they so deserved. I mean I think a lot of critics newspaper writers etc.. were damn well afraid to admit just how great the Bee Gees really
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