Too many people decide today on what is good music by how many copies it sells. I can tell you though that all that pop music is selling is sex. They are not selling the music.

Why do you think so many boy bands and singers like Britney Spears sell out concerts, and sell so many cds? Is it because of the music? I've listened to it, and I want to paint the wall with my brains after listening to them about twice. Sure the music is catchy. Pop music is written by a team of professionals to do just that. Catch the audience with catchy beats and a generalized sound.

The music industry pushes pop music out to the forefront today, because it is what sells. They push whatever is popular at the moment out onto the buyers, and like sheep the consumers buy into it.

The latest example, Avril Lavigne. While some of you might enjoy her pop-hit "Complicated", it is pure pop. I agree it is catchy, but is it top quality music? If you go to Avril's website, you see how she is a "sk8r punk" and how she makes her own punk music. Since when is pop punk? She is dressed up to be the next "punk" by putting her into overpriced clothes from Hot Topic. Her claiming that her music is punk is a disgrace to real punk bands like The Ramones and such forth.

When you buy pop music, all you are buying is some over-produced vocals, being put to beats you probably already heard before, just mixed up a little bit. And why do people buy this? Well mainly because most of them are to young to realize and understand the importance of lyrics and other musical aspects. You are buying into the person, not the music.

I know I am overgenerlizing. I'm sure there actually are some talented pop singers out there. Maybe they can sing, and they don't need Pro-tools to fix their vocals in the studio, but until I see one hit the fore front again. I will beleive music is still on a steep downward turn.

More people should embrace music they haven't heard before, and actually listen to a song, instead of just nodding your head along to a beat. When you buy a cd, buy music, not a over-produced product.

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"Can't you hear my motored heart? Your the one that started it!"

-Foo Fighters "Generator"

Cogito ergo sum

Maybe its the fact that i dont pay much attention to the words of a song at first, as pop is simply words, with beats, i mean, jeez, the drummer, and gutar players in a pop band dont get any credit, which is cr*p.
I like to hear a nice beat,and i mean a REAL beat. like "Moonbaby-God smack" now thats a song you can listen to and have fun... awsom drum and gutar...and to back the kick @$$ beat up, you got a cool song being sung as well.

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I have a story one of my friends told me that relates to this:

A girl and a boy are walking along the street together. The boy calls himself a punk. So the girl asks him to explain what being a punk is. The boy kicks over a trashcan and says, "That's punk." They keep walking, and come up to another trashcan, and now the girl kicks it over. She asks, "Am I a punk now?"

The boy says, "No, you're trendy."

Don't get me wrong, I think people should just listen to whatever music they like, and whatever they have fun listening to...but I really cannot understand why anyone would ever listen to pop...I listen to practically everything, with the exception of pop. It just sounds too...synthesized, if you know what I mean.

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I too don't understand, but then I'm of the classical school of thought myself. And soundtracks. And a little trance, maybe. Heh.

And yes, on occasion I have been known to get into the Oldies, hehehe...

Casts eyes upward, beginning to hum the "Fur Elise....

To me, a good rhythm and depth of sound is what counts... and if lyrics, please let them not be nasty ones....

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I dunno, I don't like it much, but I don't understand why there's so much hatred towards it. A lot of the beats and lyrics are catchy, and the artists are talented at using their voice box, so what's the problem?

I'd rather listen to Britney Spears than Paula Abdul...there is no music I hate more than Paula Abdul's. I don't know how people made it through the 80's without committing suicide.

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I don't know, it just seems to make me mad because they aren't getting by on their true talent.

Oh yea, and most pop stars don't sing live. You know why? Because they can't hit the notes in their songs, they have pro-tools to do that for them in the studio.

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"Can't you hear my motored heart? Your the one that started it!"

-Foo Fighters "Generator"

Cogito ergo sum

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These Boybands are the kill of music, and those fake Britney Spear body, no singing voice people....

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I can't stand it when they don't sing live, it's just dumb, but then I don't listen to them often.

If you can prove it I'll be a pop hater like you.

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Watch any live performance of most big pop singers and watch there mouths, that's all the proof you need.

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"Can't you hear my motored heart? Your the one that started it!"

-Foo Fighters "Generator"

Cogito ergo sum

Prove pro-tools does what you said it does for who you said it does it for.

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But yeah, those sorts of programs exist.

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