The document discusses how musicians, entertainers, and marketers adapt to cultural changes and influence popular culture. It contains 3 main points:
1. Musicians and genres evolve and change over time in response to cultural shifts. Entertainers also reflect the mood and needs of their time through their creative works.
2. Market research is not always needed as entertainers can capture the zeitgeist through intuitive works that reflect economic, social, and political changes of a time.
3. Fans and audiences are also influenced through emotional connections to creative works and rituals around music, which marketers then learn to utilize to promote brands.
11. "We didn't do any market research
but the culture and society at that
time needed and wanted an angry
young man. Therefore, Zanjeer just
happened".
"It captured the mood of the time. It
was changing and so the angry
young man was born and the
character became the ruling icon for
generation of young Indians," he
said.
"Similarly, Kaun Banega Crorepati,
we did not create any phenomenon
or set a trend. It was merely a
reflection of economic liberalisation,
consumerism, increased
urbanisation and nuclear family
with working parents," he added.