Okay, sigh, I'm going to jump in here. Thanks a lot Wyman <g>! Just kidding!
First off I'll re-iterate what DavidW said in his response to Brian, 'great analogy'. Secondly, there's a conglomerate called "radio". Radio is a business, music is a business. Music feeds radio and radio feeds music. That simple. Marketing made this happen, and marketing has kept it happening. That's it in a nutshell. Oh, and by the way, this song actually opens up really well, sounds great all the way to the chorus and that's the part everyone (that I know of) gets disappointed. But it made it, it exists, and you too can write lame lyrics (and I'm only talking lyrics cause the melody's not bad at all) if you have a major label and a fantastic marketing plan. Oh, and by the way, there is no such thing as bad press, so already here just because of this post we're all feeding the curious minds into going out and listening to this just to decide whether or not it's really bad, and so it'll have another week on the charts, thanks to DavidW. <g> just kidding with you David! BUT, that's marketing!