Who are your favorite nonmainstream artists?

Jessica Lange is pretty mainstream, OP

R1 Not really. I mean, AHS definitely earned her a ton of new fans, but she’s always been more of an artist’s artist or actor’s actor. She was never and still isn’t much of a box-office draw. Her reclusiveness, I feel, had a lot to do with this.

The surge in her popularity during the ‘10s reminds one that if she had wanted to, she could have been mainstream by starring in more mainstream fare. She’s “got it,” as they say.

Rock band: Catherine Wheel. A band 10000 times better than any other band of the early/mid 90s but got 1/10000th the attention of bands like Nirvana, Oasis, etc. Their first two records are excellent but the third album is half-great too. And they evevn had a great cover of Wish you were Here.

Jessica Lange is mainstream. What are you talking about? Do you know what mainstream means?

R4 :sigh: Yes! I suppose Meryl loving and praising her so makes her mainstream, but you probably weren’t a fan of hers pre-AHS. The lack of and droughts in between content was painful.

Oh wait, bitch is still hiding!

[quote] she’s always been more of an artist’s artist or actor’s actor.

But she is still mainstream. She isn't underground or alternative by any means. She was in mainstream Hollywood movies for decades.

OP you do not understand what mainstream is.

R7 Then be useful and educate me!

Jessica Lange is mainstream: cast in many studio films, female lead in a couple hits, won Oscars and Emmys, regular on a hit show.

OP, you really don’t know what you’re talking about and should probably just delete your account.

Shirley Horn. She never really crossed over the way someone like Nina Simone or Diana Krall did.

She's my favorite jazz vocalist and one of my favorite jazz pianists

R9 AND a Tony; never forget that.

Also, you bitches ain’t convincing me of shit.

This just came up on shuffle and I literally teared up and felt a little bit of ecstasy.

How does this bitch take me from the longing and nostalgia of R12 to the empowerment and badassery of in .5 seconds? How does she do this!?

Tori Amos: also pretty much the definition of a mainstream artist.

NOT mainstream

R14 Um, don’t let her multiple Grammy nominations and millions of records sold fool you.

There seems to be a disparity between how I define nonmainstream and how you cunts define mainstream.

R15 God, I love him so. I’m just finishing up his fab biography “Fire in the Belly” by Cynthia Carr.

“Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration” might be my favorite memoir - and book - of all time.

[quote] There seems to be a disparity between how I define nonmainstream and how you cunts define mainstream.

Tori music is alternative for sure but I wouldn't say she's undeground. She is very much mainstream.

Actress: Elizabeth Taylor

Musician: The Beatles

Author: William Shakespeare

Painter: Norman Rockwell

This is as "non-mainstream" as I get...

r19 has jokes

R19 lmao! You bitch. Never stop. You are why I love the ninth circle that is DL.

Colin Haye.

I like the Bacon Brothers but they're mainstream, just not musically.