Underground is about passion. of course the word is missused and abused . a true underground artist will create music/art from the heart as apposed to something tailored to a commercial market.an underground event organiser will still put on the event for the love of it even if its going to lose money... underground artists can have a long career out of the often distructive gaze of mainsteam media and earn money which is closer to someone with a good job than the millions of there commercial counterparts. where as a commercial artist will probably have a short shelf life
"I have been buying his records for 15 years, a true underground artist"
"whatever happened to him , last year he was on every tv show , radio station and all the teenage girls had his tee shirt"
By Starlene
Underground
underground is like deeper beats, lyrics and soul to a song - commercial is like what get's played on the radio and is marketed to the masses - Britney's mainstream, Eminem is mainstream - even though anyone can make underground music they don't coz it doesn't sell like commercial stuff - underground IS deeper, more hardcore, more controversial, or whatever...
sup the chenist - dust c.d is underground.. you'll know the difference if you know your music...
NB: It isn't underground because it hasn't hit mainstream yet - it's whole design is different to mass appeal.
By Carley
Underground
Does NOT have to be unknown, it can also be a rapper that was underground yet kept the style and became extremely popular and well-selling commercialmaterial
those fucking annoying pimples that are like a solid mound protruding from your head, hurt like hell, yet don't have a head so you can't deal with them
you: fml this new pimple is giving me a headache friend: ouch, an underground?
By Zora
Underground
A twenty-first century marketingbuzz word used to convince teens that the over-hyped, over-produced, corporate-friendly crap they listen to on the radio station everday is actually "unique, hip, different" or that they somehow aren't part of a target market in which they all obediently buy the same crap.
Yeah, that hot new underground rapper made his debut on TRL today.
By Kendra
Underground
Un•der•ground (un’der ground’), n., adj.
1) A genre in music and other forms of media intended for an elite audience, that is often characterized by its high levels of originality and experimentation, and does not conform to typical standards, trends, or hypes as set by the popular mainstream media.
A movement or a group of people related to music, who do it not for the money, the notoriety or the fame, but for the love. They don’t promote, because they don’t crave popularity. They also don’t need to tell everyone about how underground they are because they aren’t really interested in labelling their own movement, they just do it, and if people enjoy it, great.
