| why are there so many of these bands around today? my main complaint about them is not that their songs suck, or that im jealous of their...uhh...anything really the thing about boy bands that upsets me, is their lack of talent while i realize that the ability to sing *well* is a talent, so is the ability to dance well...i still do not consider what these bands do "talent" it used to be that some guys (or girls) would get together, practice a lot, write some music, play instruments, or something, and hope to eventually "make it" or whatever their goals were with boy bands, some manager recruits a bunch of "hotties" who can be choreographed for, and trained to sing well enough to put out a record that teen girls will buy when carson daly and/or MTV tells them to a bunch of guys will be auditioned, and a band will be created and songs are written for them, and dances are made up for them...they are just bodies i dont blame the guys who are in the band, i mean, hell, if i was offerred all this money to basically do nothing and have no talent, id sure take it but it cheapens the lives of legitimate musicians who are trying to be heard but cannot be because all of this commercialized pop music is flooding the market if they had any other talents (for example, the ability to play some type of instrument, or to say, write their own songs, or something...ANYTHING) i would not have a problem with their success why dont the people who actually write this stuff record the songs themselves and try to get rich off of it that way? because the writers arent hot teen idols and that is what is really being sold here, not the music |