What everyone has to remember is that every one of these songs and hundreds more like it, are "released" to the public every year. They all have the exact same promotion money, they have the exact same marketing campaigns, the exact same people putting them out and working them up and down the line. And every few months new songs and artists are released.

At the end, there is NO song that doesn't have popular support that continues on the radio, television, motion pictures, or in the public conciousness. In the end the public makes the final decision. If they don't buy it, it is gone faster than you can imagine.

There are and always have been songs and artists that defy everyone's sense of what is good or isn't good. All of us can site chapter and verse things that we didn't think deserved the attention it got and can recite chapter and verse things that we thought could not miss.

But you can't blame other people if your taste runs counter to theirs and you can't blame some "Machine" that controls anything because there is no such animal, contrary to what a lot of people looking far outside seem to think.

Whenever there is any thing in public conciousness that runs counter to our own opinions, the natural reaction is that "They are all crazy" and blame the public, music producers, artists, writers, whatever.

I don't agree with everything but I know how hard it is to get stuff out there. I am not arrogant enough to think that I know it all. There are things I "don't get" but I can't blame other people because their opinions differ from mine.

Just part of life.

As always, all anyone ever has to do is write those monster songs, form their own publishing and record companies, raise the nessasary capital, get their artists out there, convince the public what they should do through marketing campaigns, and prove their opinions.

Only takes about $2.5 million to get into the game. Go for it.

MAB

MAB