Jonas Brothers are not farking rock. The Monkees are farking Slayer compared to them.

stars? no.

Yes. The new batch of stars are too damn squeaky clean.

Control_this: Yes. The new batch of stars are too damn squeaky clean.

she's small potatoes compared to Miley Cyrus, jonas Bros, etc. Does Winehouse still get airplay?


I think the popularity of the Miley Cyrus, Jonas Bros., et al. are directly correlated to the over-the-top excessiveness of the likes of Amy Winehouse in terms of marketing "safe, clean" acts to parents scared the fark of mainstream pop otherwise. But I think I prefer the awfulness of Fergie, Avril Lavigne, etc. over the fake rock of the HSM Disney Pop crowd.

I will disown my kids if they get into that shiat.

The squeaky ones have always been around, you just have to look harder to find them because they aren't as popular and they don't leave much of a legacy compared to some drugged out rampage of a career.

i'll tell ya right now - 90% are faking that "purity" crap because they'll do anything for success. bryan adams is their template - his "career" is "you want disco, i'll give you disco".

The real problem is that the recording industry execs don't want rock and roll to be rebellious anymore. It's bad for the marketing department.

At the MTV Video Music Awards:
Christina Aguilera insisted on vanilla-scented candles and four black bath towels. Aguilera also asked for a space heater and two bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne as part of her pre and post-performance dressing room package.
Jonas Brothers requested room temperature apple juice. The Jonases added eight Red Bull Sugar free beverages, plus 6 regular Red Bulls and 24 pieces of California sushi rolls as part of their list of requirements.
Rihanna likes to chill out with Trish McEvoy blueberry candles, Buffalo wings and roasted chicken, spiced with jerk seasoning before shows,
Kid Rock requires Chap Stick, white crew socks and low fat raspberry yogurts.

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GurneyHalleck: The real problem is that the recording industry execs don't want rock and roll to be rebellious anymore. It's bad for the marketing department.

Bingo. And when mass-media pop music becomes just watered down pablum, then the underground becomes the place to be, if you want music.

The next wave is already happening: fueled not by record contracts, but via traded mp3s. A massive world-wide underground scene that doesn't want or need the recording industry.

And this is why the recording industry is really trying to kill the mp3, and p2p.

GurneyHalleck: The real problem is that the recording industry execs don't want rock and roll to be rebellious anymore. It's bad for the marketing department.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Right on the money!

(literally).

If we are, their music will sure suck crap.

Wouldn't it be nice if people kept their religious views as a personal part of their life like they're supposed to be? If you write good music, that's awesome. If you write good music and insist upon parading your personal beliefs around as proof that you're a good person, that's annoying.

Try just being a decent human being instead of telling people you are.

Give me self-loathing, god hating evil mutherfarkers anyday.

FTA:

The only one who could ever reach Dusty Springfield, she told us back in 1969, was the son of a preacher man. As the hit single from her best album - Dusty in Memphis - it is the song that defines Springfield for most of us. It also hints at a wider truth: the importance of the offspring of preachers in modern music.

I hate to be the one to interject this here, but the author of this article is really misinterpreting this song in big way.

Billy-ray was a preachers son
And when his daddy would visit hed come along
When they gathered round and started talkin
Thats when billy would take me walkin
A-through the back yard wed go walkin
Then hed look into my eyes
Lord knows to my surprise

The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Yes he was, he was, mmm, yes he was

Being good isnt always easy
No matter how hard I try
When he started sweet-talkin to me
Hed come and tell me everything is all right
Hed kiss and tell me everything is all right
Can I get away again tonight?

The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Yes he was, he was, lord knows he was

How well I remember
The look that was in his eyes
Stealin kisses from me on the sly
Takin time to make time
Tellin me that hes all mine
Learnin from each others knowing
Lookin to see how much weve grown

And the only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Yes he was, he was, oh, yes he was
He was the sweet-talking son of a preacher man
I guessed he was the son of a preacher man
Sweet-lovin son of a preacher man
Ahh, move me

The preacher's son in the song is not exactly teaching her the damn gospel.

I don't think any of these performers have professed themselves to be rock. I don't think that it's such a bad thing for kids to have positive role models, even if it is b.s. The Jonas Brothers seem like good kids, who are really good to their fans. They hit their target audience, and if that target audience sees that they wear purity rings, and decides 'hey that's cool' maybe we'll have fewer teenage mom's and dad's out there. There's nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with them talking about their views either. It's not like they are jamming religion down anyone's throat, they are only saying what they believe. People get so wound up about sex. Either have it or don't, but don't judge some else's choice, it just makes you look like a jack ass.

FeedTheCollapse: Control_this: Yes. The new batch of stars are too damn squeaky clean.

she's small potatoes compared to Miley Cyrus, jonas Bros, etc. Does Winehouse still get airplay?


I think the popularity of the Miley Cyrus, Jonas Bros., et al. are directly correlated to the over-the-top excessiveness of the likes of Amy Winehouse in terms of marketing "safe, clean" acts to parents scared the fark of mainstream pop otherwise. But I think I prefer the awfulness of Fergie, Avril Lavigne, etc. over the fake rock of the HSM Disney Pop crowd.

I will disown my kids if they get into that shiat.

this.

/no kids
//off my lawn

It's just corporate GOP bullshiat.

Clean, (mostly) Christian, highly educated band who don't practice a self-indulgent, destructive lifestyle and kick more ass than any other musical group on Earth?



It's more likely than you think.

/UP THE IRONS!

Jedekai: Clean, (mostly) Christian, highly educated band who don't practice a self-indulgent, destructive lifestyle and kick more ass than any other musical group on Earth?



It's more likely than you think.

/UP THE IRONS!

There's a difference here. Maiden (despite their lifestyles) is an innovative and highly controversial fundie-shiatfit-causing heavy metal band whose music is escapism and mostly unconnected to the members' beliefs, whereas Jonas Bros. et al are bland, willfully exploited, Sanitized For Your Protection™ pop products whose publicists use their clients' chaste lifestyles as a sales tool to Concerned Parents and their potentially rebellious children.

When it comes to entertainment value, make-believe evil triumphs over (allegedly) genuine goodness. The crime here is that in the case of Jonas Brothers, they are selling Music (CDs, mp3s, concert tickets) through the manipulation of that which is Not Music (religious beliefs). It's nothing but dirty underhanded trickery, symptomatic of the dying industry that is Big Music.

/gets off soap box
//UP THE IRONS RIGHT BACK ATCHA! \m/
///Prefers Bruce's solo stuff TBH

I think that these squeaky-clean new acts should be required to read "The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band" so that they'll know how rock stars are SUPPOSED to live. I'm talking substance abuse, trashing hotel rooms, farking groupies by the hundreds, going in and out of rehab, brawling with each other, shocking and horrifying parents, getting married and divorced to porn stars and Playboy Playmates, tattooing yourself until you look like a human comic book, etc.

Rock and roll ain't just a type of music, it's a way of life.