okr, that's just it... so much of that music is pre-fab. Even GaGa is over-produced but at least she brings something to the table with her offbeat personality and showmanship.
I flip over to popular music stations and just roll my eyes at the sewage spewing out of them and it all sounds the same. Popular music has always (mostly) been crap but with studios clamoring to for money after the entire landscape changed with Napster, they're producing more and more of the same and pushing it to the top of the charts. It's kind of ironic that right now, music is possibly at the best and worst it has ever been. Digital downloads, satellite radio, etc. have given everyone access to great underground bands that they'd never hear otherwise but in turn, studios are pushing more watered-down shit at the mainstream than they ever have before.
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