| Kasz216 said: If something has a certain level of quality it will get hype. Mainstream quality. It needs to be both mainstream and of high quality. |
Maybe we think of "hype" as being different things? To me, it's just the amount of news stories, mentions in daily conversations and such. And no, lots of famous pieces of music, literature and art were virtually unknown, or at the very least not popular, in their own time. Hyping came later, and usually in unforseeable ways. Some pieces of art have never been "popular", but can continue to sell (or attract - whatever) for hundreds of years.
I do agree that something that has been hyped to the mainstream needs a minimum quality in order not to flop though. It is entirely uncontroversial to say that Dan Brown (still just an example here) is bad writer. I'm not the only one saying it by any means. I do think he reaches the minimum level requiered though.
Did you understand what I mean by hits != phenomenons? If not, we should probably just quit, since we're not really getting any further.
