Boy bands all sound the same to me

Here's my gripe, these boy bands such as Boy Zone, A1, Westlife, Backstreet Boys, Hanson etc.  Well what do these well known groups all have in common?  They are all more or less puppets that in my opinion don't have a great deal of talent and are paid to just sit up and do whatever their record company says.

They're told to shut up and sing a love song or some other soppy nonsense; usually to some mindless pop beat.  Not exactly original or creative is it?

All of this rubbish has been written, produced, and conceived by some fat cat producer that has been in the industry for years and 1. Doesn't listen to pop music 2. knows what kind of lyrics to put in a song to make money.

They just take the corniest thing you can say to a girl multiply the corn factor by 10 add some vomit and check it for sexual innuendo's.  After it's made clean, slap it to some elevator music with some well composed orchestral bit in it for good measure, then get the "boys" in the "Band" to sing at a certain tone so it is easy for the producers' team to digitally boost the voices up to sound like they have a god given talent and have been singing since they were in nappies.

I will hopefully one day have children and I plan to let them experience a very wide range of music because I have a theory that the reason that people buy this rubbish is that they don't know what music is.  I may be crazy, but music should take you on a journey in a emotional or intellectual sense.  Some music makes a statement and voices an opinion, some are displays of lyrical excellence, and some is structured to enhance your physical state to "bring you up" and to let go and dance around the fire so to speak.  Anger is not a good emotion for music to create and that is all that Pop music seems to bring out in me.

Out of all this the main thing that upsets me is my generation ( all 20-30 year olds) has had some incredible music come through and there could be allot more of it if investors wouldn't keep backing this fast food pop music.  We are pumped with it through the radio and T.V 24/7 and when I get older future generations will look back and think what a complete waste of time that musical era was.

In the past two years Westlife broke the Beatles record for UK number one's and Bob the Builder was the best selling record of the year 2000...  It might be just me, but doesn't that just sound so wrong?

By Big L