correction

In the previous post, I wrote:

"Avril Lavigne is a perfect example of the music marketing machine at its most brilliant, i.e., evil"

I take that back, I forgot about Fergie.

Fergie is the Black-Eyed Peas' "singer" of "My Humps," who has now gone solo. Avril's money men have got nothing on the Rove-like reptiles who have somehow managed to sell this talent-impaired model as a musician.

Kudos to you, soulless bastards!

Seriously, I don't know why this crap bothers me so much. OK, actually I do. It's the idea that the most important thing is The Look. Once The Look is found, bring It into a studio with a mega producer and liberal doses of auto-tuning/pitch-correction software (singing ability is at best an afterthought). Promote the bejeebers out of It, and bam, before you know it, The Look is discussing Its "art" in Rolling Stone.

Bitter? Yep.