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...that this song is the best example of how the mainstream music industry machinery no longer makes songs, or records, or even music, but rather commercial media entities. This kind of synergy may be bad or good depending on your take, but it’s undeniable. Bubble-gum pop has always been around to sell itself, but “Toxic” takes that to a new level—it sells everything it touches, and it does so without any apparent intrinsic value. Normally, I wouldn’t condone this. I mean, lyrically, the song...
...tley Crüe is living proof of how, as fellow L.A.-based pop rockers The Buggles said so famously, “video killed the radio star.” MTV’s mass distribution of the hard rock quintet’s trashy and over-sexed videos in the mid-80s gave Mötley Crüe a distinguishable face in a genre saturated in repetitive riffs, hair spray and waterproof mascara: Tommy Lee’s gigantic penis...
...foresight to predict an age in which their drugs and sex will merit multiple VH1 specials deserve a 37-track greatest hits compilation? Not really. The Crüe’s release is an unwanted trip down memory lane that demonstrates that the only lasting addition to pop culture Tommy Lee has made is a pandemic of hepatitis...
...that this song is the best example of how the mainstream music industry machinery no longer makes songs, or records, or even music, but rather commercial media entities. This kind of synergy may be bad or good depending on your take, but it’s undeniable. Bubble-gum pop has always been around to sell itself, but “Toxic” takes that to a new level—it sells everything it touches, and it does so without any apparent intrinsic value. Normally, I wouldn’t condone this. I mean, lyrically, the song...
...group has developed a concept for a CD-ROM that would feature an interactive multimedia map. Clicking on one spot on the map might lead you to a song crafted by a beat-minded Present! member, while another will cause a piece of interactive animation to pop...