Sometimes I think the corporate machine which dictates American musical taste infects all aspects of our collective psyche. Music as marketing is constantly being beamed into our brains. Even Starbucks has a record label. This musi-marketing is a profound groove killer, an entity that respects only anti-music. Visual beauty is more valued than musical ability, highly stylized dance skills more than original, insightful songs. It is effective only because studio tricks can produce something that seems very much like music out of the ether in pretty teenager
