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Lets face it MOST pop music aimed at teenagers is pretty mediocre. Few of these modern pop stars have any real talent and the songs themselves are pretty lame and simple relying in the main on production and copying the techniques that have worked before. The people behind this manufacturing process are clever when it comes to hype and marketing but incredibly shallow when it comes to the art of producing quality music itself.....they know how to exploit and promote a teen pop artist and how short a shelf live they have so tend to stick with this formula. So it is a revolving door with flavour of the month continually being replaced. They also know that as their target market audience grow up and see through the hormone driven infatuation they themselves experienced a brand new batch of fans hit the teenage years. So the cycle continues.
I have come to the conclusion that this will not change anytime soon. I have also come to the conclusion that very few people can muscle in on the virtual monopoly of the few people who control and exploit this marketplace.
I do not think that any adult with a serious or discerning attitude about music would ever want to get involved with this kind of pop music for any other reason than to make money. I would go so far as to say that any decent songwriter or performer would have to do a lot of dumbing down just to reach such low standards. I also think that anyone not a teenager themselves would not be up to speed with the ever changing language, trends and cultures modern teenagers have.
I say let the easy led teenies get exploited and have their music so that and in twenty years or so they can have a laugh at how silly both they and there music was.....and how they fell for this mass exploitation hook line and sinker.