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Everyone here seems to forget (or is too young to realize) that pre-fab pop IS NOT NEW!! Every generation has had their share of it.
A majority of the "Major artists" never wrote their own material. That includes the greats: Elvis, Sinatra, 90% of the Motown artists and groups well into the 70's, 80's and 90's.
It just seems that todays stuff seems to be worse.
I voted for Milli Vanilli, because up to that point, the singer was allowed to perform the song, regarless of who wrote it. In this case someone wrote the songs, someone else sang them and then Rob & Fabrice were brought in to "perform" the songs for video and concerts.
It was all about image and not about material. That's when things took a turn for the worse, because the only thing the music industry "learned" from it was to hire better looking people to sing the songs in the first place.
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