Commercial Music

How the FUCK can people actually give in to this bullshit? Its mostly rap now a day. I see no difference at all between Hurricane Chris and "A Bay Bay" than Nsync and "Bye Bye Bye". These people get signed by major record labels who tell them what to do, and out of no where they make loads of money. Hurricane Chris barely has a biography, has one CD, and is making a shitload of money off of one liners. Some bands such as Fall Out Boy started out as small bands, but soon got big because of record labels doing the work for them. Incredibly talented bands don't get even close to the recognition as the Top 40 bands. I was watching the live earth performance, and got so angry because of how they played. The most SIMPLE progressions, and little tricks to make it seem difficult. To the general mainstream public, Pete Wentz is a bass god. How the fuck can someone consider him good, when he plays with a pick and doesn't even play fast at all, and picks like he is just smashing all 4 strings. What do people see in cheap music like this? How does it get so popular when even a monkey can see the difference in talent between Fall Out Boy and many obscure metal bands. Even jazz which takes more talent to play than most metal does, is less obscure than bands controlled by their record label.

Just because people like something, that doesn't make it good.
Think about Arbys or Taco bell.
It's the worst crap in the world, but everyone seems to like it.

Not all commercial music is bad. Music is measured through the tests of time. As time passes, people see music more for the sound and the memories it provokes, rather than the image surrounding it. Example, I don't hear Britney Spears anymore. Shows you what crap it was. However, no matter how much one detests bands such as Pearl Jam, Nirvana, their musics has passed the barriers of time. Their songs are still played on the radio. Hell a great band like Led Zeppelin I would define as commercial music. But it is good, and stood the test of time.

Commercial music is just music with a spotlight on it. It changes constantly.

Yeah, I realized the title isn't that great because there are some talented commercial bands, but they are slowly dying. The only one I can think of at the top of my head is RHCP and a handful of singers who have their own style.