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Is 2002 is the end of the Teeny Boppers ?

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Nickyct

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Once a week I'll go to billboard.com to check out the music charts that they have.
Looks like the Teeny Bopper CD aren't selling like they used to anymore. Not even half of their previous CD.

I guess 2/3 of them are grown up and grown out of it and may be found out that paying for a blank disc and download them off the net is more economical than buying the whole CD and found out that all the songs sound exactly the same on all track like Britney spears. All her slow songs sound the same and her fast song have the exact same beat ( I wish they could just stop playing it at work) Everytime her song comes I play my MP3 real lound so I can't hear any of her songs.

 
Interestingly enough, the first couple of years of any decade, historically, are always bad for the music industry. Not sure why this is, but it's true.
For example: 1981 is still the music industry's worst year and they still haven't quite recovered from it and the boom years of the 70s. Many credit MTV with saving the music industry at that time. The early 80s also marked the transition from mostly vinyl to mostly cassette tapes. The industry was very much against that transition.
The early 90s were also very bad for the industry. Glam-rock and Guns n' Roses were fading and, believe it or not, Nirvana pulled their asses out of the fire. The change from cassette tapes to CDs was also taking place at this time (a move the industry was in favor of because they foolishly believed that the general public would never be able to copy CDs).
Now we are at a similar crossroads. Grunge and its long-line of Matchbox20-like pop offshouts are fading (because they all sound the same). Rap and Hip Hop seem to be growing stale. The latest Creed album was crap. Teenybop music (always the industry's top sellers) is at an all-time low in both sales and actual musical quality. IMHO, there's really nothing new and exciting out there right now. On top of that, the radical transition from CDs to mp3's is in full swing and the music industry has missed the boat on digital formats entirely.

 
Yo,
Let's be realistic: there's been disposable teenage music for a long long time. Not just for the InSync and Britney Spears generation... need I remind you of New Kids on the Block (1987) or even the original Pre-Fab Four, The Monkees (1965).

On the other hand, I'd say that teenager music... that is, music marketed at the US teenage audience... the average musical knowledge and skill has steadily declined over since the 1960s, coinciding with the rise of large music corporations.

Music corporations realize that the youth of today doesn't care if their music idols can sing or play an instrument (let alone read music): as long as they look good on stage or on TV. It's all about image. Marketing. Money.

At least The Monkees had the guts to make fun of themselves.
-PCM

 


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You're probably right. They'll be another wave coming.
As long as they're flashing their boobs and navels every chance they get they'll make it.
It's scary. Those kids will be running our country one of these days. I can see where we're heading now.
 
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