Audience

Drake’s music significantly changed once he became mainstream, one can even say he sold out.  Before he never had an audience to please but now he definitely does.    Drake said so himself that he did not have fun making Thank Me Later because of the pressure involved and his label Young Money wanting him to have good record sales.  Sometimes I wonder that though he writes all his music, is it really him writing all his music.

Audience is such a general term but one we have discussed at great lengths in class.  Every form of entertainment has an audience in mind and therefore all forms of artistic expression are aimed at luring them in.  Especially in mainstream music artists are only concerned with making a profit and therefore that means pleasing their audience.  It’s sad but its true.  Drake is an artist who is constantly in tune with who is audience, young females.  His songs are aimed towards pleasing them as well as his live performance.   Sometimes for artists it is easier to hold the attention of a smaller audience rather than one that it so broad. In actuality if one were to do a breakdown Drake’s record sales I would not be surprised to find that the majority are from females in the 18-24 demographic.  I am Drake’s audience as well as was literally in his audience.   4/22 the day I have talked about already I was in his audience and he did his job luring me in.  He singled me out and talked to me and in this way he succeeded at making me a fan for life.