>>126854013
First of all, that's not at all the point you were making above so let's take a moment to acknowledge your goalpost-moving and lack of balls to admit that you were wrong on an anonymous imageboard.
Second, even this point is retarded, because it's not relevant to the point I'm making.
Sure you can theoretically have a niche sound and become somewhat successful with it with the right image (the hot girl trick was already commonplace LONG before Afrojack was even born), but:
1- Any niche/underground sound that the masses will accept is already pretty mainstream.
2- You still have to make it somewhat palatable to the masses, otherwise your successful will be severely limited and not even close to "actually famous" levels.
3- Statistically, this is still very unlikely, exactly the way it was in 2010 (the year in which brostep, a way weirder genre than anything mainstream, became massive worldwide and opened everyone up to electronic music in general). You're still much less likely to become world-famous with a niche genre than you are with a mainstream one even accounting for the difference in competition, unless you sell out like I said in the first post and alter it so it's more palatable to mainstream tastes.
It's undoubtedly harder to make it today than in 2010, both because there's so much more competition, and because the bar for quality is much higher for a number of reasons, so my point is that much like it's gotten harder in the past 15 years, it will likely continue to get harder (the trend seems to be going up, and the introduction and certain future development of AI tools make me pretty confident in my prediction) so we should feel motivated to shift our focus towards finding success, rather than towards making something with "artistic merit".
Even if what you said was true, by using a hot girl as the frontwoman of your act you, quoting verbatim, "sell out and make it by any means necessary".
TLDR:
Everything you said is retarded in every way
