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riot_nrrrdHas anyone around here heard "Pop," the new single by NSync?
Actually, I haven't heard all of it. I got halfway through the first verse, then I got nauseous and had to turn the TV off.
Basically, it's about the pop music scene. About teenage girls being made into Playboy bunnies and marketed to 4-year-old girls as positive female role models. About groups of boys who have never written songs in their lifetimes and who in all likelihood don't even know how to read music. About the rich big-name producers who put these acts together not for the purpose of making good music, but purely to make money.
And the premise of the song is that people should stop decrying pop music as a trend, because it's not going to go away, because it's a genuine art form. Or, as little blond NSync guy sings (hell if I'm going to expend any energy learning their names), "We bring the gift of melody."
Melody? OK. But you forgot other things. Like substance and credibility.
One wonders if it's actually NSync who's singing to us in that song, or if it's the big multi-millionaire producers singing through them, telling us, "We've already taken over the world. Shut up and hand us your wallets."
Actually, I haven't heard all of it. I got halfway through the first verse, then I got nauseous and had to turn the TV off.
Basically, it's about the pop music scene. About teenage girls being made into Playboy bunnies and marketed to 4-year-old girls as positive female role models. About groups of boys who have never written songs in their lifetimes and who in all likelihood don't even know how to read music. About the rich big-name producers who put these acts together not for the purpose of making good music, but purely to make money.
And the premise of the song is that people should stop decrying pop music as a trend, because it's not going to go away, because it's a genuine art form. Or, as little blond NSync guy sings (hell if I'm going to expend any energy learning their names), "We bring the gift of melody."
Melody? OK. But you forgot other things. Like substance and credibility.
One wonders if it's actually NSync who's singing to us in that song, or if it's the big multi-millionaire producers singing through them, telling us, "We've already taken over the world. Shut up and hand us your wallets."
