There is a disturbing trend in our music industry. You probably know the one I'm going to mention. The trend where rich corporate executives manufacture a pop star so that they have somebody they can easily control and who won't have any qualms against whoring themselves out as a spokesperson to fast food restaurants and carbonated soft-drinks.

Here's the basic formula: 1. Find a reasonably pretty girl who will look prettier if you stick her on a pair of high heels, bleach her hair blond, and paint her like a canvas. Also, force her to do sit-ups all the time. 2. It doesn't matter if the girl can sing or not, all she has to do is grunt into the microphone like she's having an orgasm. 3. Teach her complicated choreographed dancing that she will do in front of an army of real dancers. 4. Seven costume changes per concert so that people will have something to distract them from the fact that this girl cannot sing, dance, and really isn't all that pretty if she takes off her whore outfit. 5. Get some dude to write all her music for her. 6. Take every single merchandising opportunity that comes up, even if they are products that everybody and their sister has a moral problem with. 7. Spend a billion dollars on other advertising so that all the real artists who sweat blood for their craft are overshadowed under a media blitz of unimaginable proportions.

It's like "Brave New World." All of a sudden there are all these manufactured performers out there that the media still has the nerve to call "artists." Excuse me, but that's the last thing that these people are. This thing is all so artificial and wrong, it makes me wonder why more people aren't standing up and calling foul? Where the fuck are all these baby boomers who always act like they have a corn cob up their ass in pretension over how much they appreciate true rock and blah, blah, blah? Once again we have an example of people who want some kind of credit without being willing to stand up and show that they are in any way worthy of it.

Back in the sixties, everybody put up a big stink when the corporately created "Monkeys" hit the radio waves. But after four decades, the fervor has quieted and people pretty much accept the "Monkeys" as legitimate (unfortunately). Now we're assaulted by crap like: Brittany (of course), Cristina (well she can sing, but she still falls into the category of corporate performer), Pink (I used to think she might have something going for her, then I saw her do a show on TNT...I watched for five minutes and she changed costume three times), Ricky Martin, Jessica Simpson, Ashley Simpson (the only one getting the appropriate back-flack she deserves), Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Backstreet Boys, blah, blah, blah.

The last true rock star was Kurt Cobain. Here's a dude who slowly climbed up the ladder starting in shitty little holes that he probably got booed out of. Even as a superstar, he bought all his clothes at the thrift store, and never changed costumes during a performance once. Plus, he wrote his own songs.

What the hell is the purpose of these evil "corporate performers" do you think there's going to be a VH1 documentary twenty years from now about them? "The Corporate performers, remember how they used to get us to buy Pepsi and hair care products." They're evil, they're sick advertising thinly disguised. Music should be about expressing ideas, not figuring out a way to sneak some infernal advertisement into your brain without you recognizing it.

Unbelievable. Remember how much money Michael Jordan used to make by promoting various products? Well, if he couldn't play basketball, I bet he would have never gotten those jobs, right? Why isn't anybody pulling the race card out on this? Where's the young, black man who's being invented as a celebrity just for the sake of moving junk?

The worst of it is, it's out of the consumers hands. We don't get to express disgust over Brittney and not buy her albums, because that's not where she makes her money anyway. The album is just something she puts on her resume to show that she's a known figure. She makes her money through the merchandising. Look at what's happening with Ashley Simpson, record stores were even offering promotions where you could trade in your Ashley Simpson record for something good. There is a petition on the internet that she retire. Do you think the corporate executives are worried? Hell no, they all understand that nobody can resist the onslaught of propaganda, that's what the Nazi's taught us anyway.

I guess the only answer to this problem is legislation. But that's never going to happen either. It seems like there's a major conspiracy to keep the airways flooded with meaningless crap so that nobody can think for themselves or learn to resist the unified, evil, collective being the human race is becoming.

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