As those who know me will appreciate, it doesn’t take much to enrage me. Reality TV certainly doesn’t help the situation either…
Page three of the Evening Standard this afternoon contained an article on how Kerry ‘McFatten’ (the ‘winner’ of IACGMOOH apparently) will be guaranteed a Number 1 single and £2m!
So the Atomic Kitten drop-out who hasn’t sung a word in over three years is guaranteed this fortune just for appearing alongside other non-celebrities on holiday in Australia? I just don’t understand! The single (although probably written during her stay) hasn’t even left her lips yet, and it’s already guaranteed top sales. What has happened to the British music industry? There’s no ‘music’ left in it, that’s what. It’s all about image, celebrity, marketing and peer pressure – most of the latter coming from local commercial radio stations who play this noise to no end!
It’s certainly making the Watermans of this world very wealthy indeed and those with working ears rather irritated. The answer to why CD single sales are continually falling is not increased illegal downloads (these people generally download tracks as a taster before going out and buying the album), but the decrease in the quality of the output.
On another ‘music’ note – what’s going on in the latest Pepsi advert? Apart from Pink screaming some racket to a crowd of ‘Romans’. MTV too seem to be running scared after the farce with Jackson and the one that used to do Britney. They’ve moved six videos til after the watershed just in case anyone else would get offended! I think the future of the international music scene is enough to offend anyone…
August 15th, 2004 at 1:18
Funilly enough, I volunteered for some market research last month and they asked me about that Pepsi advert. Or at least the one with Beckham in.
Shame there was no ‘ban these crap expensive adverts’ option…