In hip-hop I deal with the most fickle, brutal, truthful audience - period.

Mass-market pop is also geared to a younger, more fickle audience than it was in the 70's and 80's.

There are a few good apprenticeships to be had under veteran bandleaders, but the audience - small, fragmented, fickle - remains a problem.

Mr. Schwarzenegger is a case of big name, big salary, fickle audiences.

How fickle, literal-minded audiences respond to it is anybody's guess.

He does not simply mean that television news has gone soft or is excessively concerned with entertaining a fickle audience.

If so, his clients will defy the odds with the fickle American audience.

For acts that have put in their time, this solves the problem of the fickle audience.

Of course, as the real Madonna has been learning over the last year or two, that's precisely what audiences, notoriously fickle, can do.

Adolescence is a sweet stumble toward awareness, and Hanson is taking it in front of a fickle audience.