the tide of opinion raises all boats

Much like voting and such things, writing about music on yr blog or playing a groups songs on yr radio show doesn't do much of nothing. That is it really doesn't mean a whole hill of beans. Or at least it's only one bean in a whole hill of beans; and that give or take that one bean it doesn't mean much to the total number beans. It takes a lot of bean all getting together in the same spot to make a pile and only a pile means much of anything and only a big pile at that.

The consequence being that if one of those beans want to seem to have power, to seem to affect the whole pile or the perspective of the pile, they need to be in line with the rest of the pile. If you back the winner, you become a winner. Your actual minority opinion might be disnonant with the pile core opinion or the other pole of pile opinion but to assure your own position as a "taste-maker" and "early adopter" you toe the line. A whole LCD equation of opinion. Leaving two options for the streetlevel college radio dj or indie rock blogger. Toe the line or strike out alone. Striking out alone is lonely, doesn't reap recoginition, requires more work and rends you more vulnerable to attacks. But in the end is more rewarding, right? RIGHT?