I'm asking this, because it seems to me that the music industry nowadays focuses more on style over substance. If you don't believe me, let me bring up an episode of "American Idol" I once saw. In one episode, there was a guy who auditioned and was obviously very talented. Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson gave him a thumbs up, but Simon Cowell said that he didn't like the way the guy looked and that since the music industry is a business, you have to have an image to sell. Not only that, but I saw another episode in which Simon Cowell told another guy that he had a good voice, but that he needed to lose a few pounds! There have been PLENTY of great musicians who weren't exactly perfect tens! If MTV had been around during the 60s and 70s, we probably would have missed out on the likes of Neil Young, Roy Orbison, and Janis Joplin, just to name a few. Nowadays musicians with substance have been replaced by mannequins that all sound alike!
2007-10-24
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