i quit watching snl yeaaars ago. will ferrell was the last redeeming cast member, and he’s now gone.
anyway, i started reading about this ashlee simpson lip sync goof up, and it amuses me. manufactured stardom is rediculous, yet it seems to sell well and be quite popular among the kiddies.
lip synced or not, her music sounds just like everything else these days. whiney, lovey dovey, etc. i can’t quite understand how this stuff is so easily marketable? is it the false empowerment it gives the “next generation?” do junior high kids think that if such an average person can be trained to dance like monkeys and lip sync, that they too can someday be rich and famous for no apparent reason?
and then the effort to maintain the trademark… geffin reported that the lipsync goof was due to a computer programmed to play a drum track. uups, it accidentally played this vocal track that was conveniently pre-recorded and stored. ashlee blames the band, and then says that she had a hoarse throat and had to lip sync.
(check out the goof, and a funny-as-all-shit remix over at ebaum’s)
they’ll manufacture boy bands and starlets for you, they’ll create an easily duplicatable image for you, and they’ll lie right to your faces, all while taking your allowance money.
i’m not shouting “down with evil music companies” here. if you find something that’s easy to do and makes you a shitload of money, go for it. i’m just baffled at how no one in their target demographic sees through it.
maybe they’ll all grow out of it.
damn kids.