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Here's my gripe, these boy bands such as One Direction, Take that, Big Time Rush, 5SOS, The Wanted 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.
Music should take you on a journey, not make you want to vomit...
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.
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
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It is the people who purchase their long-players that perpetuate their existence.
Mark Collar's word, they are here to stay!
As a wise man once said
"The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about."
In the end, its all comes down to money.
The music, like all music, will soon be illegally in the wilds of the online world. There won't be much cash parted with at all. And then of course there's always recording from Radio 1 for one's own consumption.
early 50's to mid-60's rookie garage rockers.(I'm 56,and would be the drummer/lyricist/singer.)
Would we older "boys" also suck?
i've gotta say though. the only boy band I can really cherish is DBSK. (korean boyband) they are the line between "idol/star" and "artist". they definitely look good, but they also have talent, the lyrics are extremely deep, most can play the piano (or drums), all of which can sing (accapella and in harmony) and can dance their butts off while doing it...
but someone always has to scam others right? get the money easily and all....
P.S What's with jumping whilst holding a guitar? It looks so idiotic!
Broke