Actually, we have made rock music in the past. Our multi-platinum selling album "So Who Am I" was very much a rock album, some of it even bordered on metal, it was that heavy.
And I'm famous in the UK (ask Prize Gotti who has seen me on the TV and heard me on the radio PLENTY of times for example), and even MORE famous in India where our videos are on MTV and VH1 on a daily basis, and we headlined the MTV Awards and did songs for huge Bollywood movies. So because I don't have that notoriety in the country that YOU live in means I'm not a rockstar according to you? There are thousands of people that would come to my show in any given location (yes, even Canada where we've played to thousands of people as recently as this summer gone).
You are being an elitist. AR Rahman was not known outside of India until "Slumdog Millionaire" came out, but he's basically royalty over there. There's guys that sell millions of records in just a handful of countries but aren't known outside of those countries, those people aren't rockstars either? Your logic is completely flawed. I'm sure there's people who are huge in Canada that aren't known outside of there either. My friends in South Africa, the band Jozi cannot go anywhere in Africa without getting literally mobbed, MJ style. They sell millions of records in Africa but if you're not of African descent or live in Africa you wouldn't know who they are. Look up someone like Brenda Fassie or Fela Kuti for example. They aren't generally known outside of Africa but these people are musical GODS. Nana Mouskouri has sold 300 million records making her one of the biggest selling female artists of all time, yet she's basically unknown outside of Greece and it's surrounding countries, and people of Greek descent. I bet you'd consider say, Pete Wentz to be a rock star. But Fall Out Boy don't sell any records in India. They don't sell any records in China. Woops, there's half the worlds population. I doubt they sell records in Thailand, Japan, or anywhere in Africa. Nobody knows who they are in any of those countries. But you would consider him a rock star because he sells records in YOUR country. How musically snobbish and elitist can you get? Have you ever even left Canada or North America?
You have every right to think I'm a dick. That's your opinion. But you can't challenge the facts. There are huge Indian communities in most countries in the world. And I can guarantee you that we have fans in every one of them.
You've been suckered in by this North American mentality that the things that are successful in YOUR market are the be all and end all when it comes to music. Sorry, there's a whole fucking world out there. Don't be such a music snob.
