Plagiarise Tone?

Today we will be recreating an ancient art form that is often seen as hokum but as you will soon see it really uncanny what it can accomplish. This ancient art form? The Anagram.

Paige Railstone = Plagiarise Tone

Wow. How can an Anagram be so spot on? We have an artist with manufactured popularity that uses other peoples music to create their own. Very befitting.

I did fine one more that I thought was very intreging...

Genitalia Poser

Rumors of Railstone being cross gender may have roots according to this anagram.
Guy or gal, I still think that Manufactured music still has no place in my playlist.

Burn Out!

I found a very good page today all about Manufactured Music. Check it out here.

Here was my fav part. It kind of inspires hope.

" Thankfully, manufactured bands - especially boy bands - usually have a shelf life of about 12 months. You can hope that after this time they will do one of the following:

Become so successful that they stop working at all, only emerging for so-called 'live' dates and charity functions (eg Boyzone).

Split up. This is not always better than the band descending into dormancy, as the members may be able to pursue a solo career, which is almost as bad. Thankfully, not all solo careers are successful - but some are, so be careful. (Eg Robbie Williams, Geri Halliwell).

Get dropped by their record label. Manufactured bands exist solely to make profit for their managers and their record label. If they start to lose popularity, they will often simply cease to exist. If this happens to a manufactured band, laugh loudly and buy yourself a celebratory drink. "

This is a UK site (from 2001) so not all the references are quite as spot on for us across the pond (and almost a decade later) but the sediment is the same. The hotter the star, the quicker it burns out. One can only hope to look at the assembly line of music that is currently available and remember that burn out is enviable. CHEERS!

Backstreets back.. ALRIGHT!!

Daily Dose of Reality:

per wikidepia "Lou Pearlman was inspired by New Kids on the Block in the 1980s and Steve Kinde (The Back Door Boys) to create his own clean-cut boy band. After a series of newspaper advertisements and auditions in 1992 and 1993, he recruited A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, and Nick Carter who met each other in several auditions and became friends."

That is all well and good but it doesn't stop there. If manufacturing hit makers is as easy as putting a couple ads in the papers than why not do it again.

"Pearlman and the Wrights then repeated this formula almost exactly with the band *NSync, which sold over 56 million records globally. With these two major successes under his belt, Pearlman had become a music mogul. Other boy bands managed by Pearlman were O-Town (created during the ABC–MTV reality TV series Making the Band), LFO, Take 5, and Natural. "

Its not obvious, but a law of nature is at work here. You start out with something that worked well and was successful like New Kids on the Block and take that formula and create a copy and that makes Backstreet Boys. They made money so you make a copy of them and that makes NSync. Copy them and you get O-town and so on and so on down the line.

A copy is never as good as the orginal and the more copies you make of the orginal, the more diluted the product becomes. Music (and our standards) have become so diluted that when anything that gets hyped up becomes so much better than it really is. As much as it is the fault of big record companies like Universal, Disney, DFTBA and others, the fault really belongs to us as well for feeding the hype machine and buying lock stock and barrel into something that is medicore at best.

Wannabe?

In February 1994, Heart Management placed an advertisement in "The Stage" trade magazine asking

"WANTED: R.U. 18-23 with the ability to sing/dance? R.U. streetwise, outgoing, ambitious and dedicated? Heart Management Ltd are a widely successful music industry management consortium currently forming a choreographed, singing/dancing, all-female pop act for a recording deal. Open audition. Danceworks, 16 Balderton Street. Friday 4 March. 11am-5:30pm. Please bring sheet music or backing cassette"

Thus started the Spice Girls and the most popular Girl Group ever.

I'm sure somewhere out there on Craigslist there was an ad running that went something like this.

"Are you a little bit EMO, a little bit ALT, a little bit Country, a little bit Rock and Roll? No experience necessary, no musical talent required. Contact DFTBA records today!"

Hey Hey I'm a DJ.. and people say I DJ around...

Twitter.. Facebook..Youtube... All a buzz with the glory that is Paige Railstone. I dont see it. I don't get it. Im pretty tied in to the music scene and before the past couple of weeks nobody had even heard of DJ Railstone. If she is so talented and the next big thing, wouldn't she be known somewhere?

You know where this all started? Micky, Michael, Peter and Davy... The Monkees.

The Beatles were HUGE. A couple of writers came up with the idea of making a fictional band and making a show about the life of rock stars. Turns out their fictional rock stars blew up huge. The TV show was a hit, their music was a hit. That's the beginning of the story but the real story happened later. The Monkees wanted creative input. They eventually got control and from that time on, the road goes down hill. Anybody see the movie they did called HEAD? I need not say more.

I like real music by real musicians.. not made up consumer force fed junk.

Hyper Active

I was listening to the radio on the way home from work and of course the DJ's were talking about the pre-release of Paige Railstone album. Without giving us a listen, they proceed to say how great the album was and how Paige was guaranteed to be the next big thing in music. How formulaic.

If you hype something enough, some people will follow it just to feel apart of something. Its some sort of Mob mentality. Its strenght in numbers. Even when the group is wrong, you wont look so foolish if you blend in and dont stand out.

Sick of it

A notice to all Sheeple out there that listen to the manufactured bubble-gum pop-princesses. Please grow a pair of EARS and tune out the garbage that corporate boheimeth like Disney, Universal Music, DFTBA records and other labels out there who are only produce music to stuff their pockets as full of cash as humanly possible. This music is manufactured on an assembly line that feeds the lowest common denominator with something that rattles around in their empty skulls until the sugar coated crap rots out what little brains they have left.

I for one am sick of it and will not follow along any more. Good bye Jonas brothers. Good bye Milley. Good bye Paige Railstone.