Posted 4:57 PM by Gene

What is extraordinarily irritating about this PR stunt is that many years ago our pop stars didn't have to GROW UP. Consider Judy Garland, or Doris Day: they started in their teens singing the same songs for adults they always did, songs and singers sharing a common grace and style. Of course Judy played youth roles, but she didn't have to dumb herself down for them; she was a cute teenager and a worthy adult at once. Their successors, however, don't sing, they whine through their noses; and they extrude not songs but anonymous material, a cross between aerobics "music" and Strawberry Shortcake, with the obligatory [C]RAP shtick to make them HIP. When said extruders GROW UP they merely add F-words and an attitude. And because many are already programmed to look like Bratz dolls they can easily graduate to sluttery. One reason they must GROW UP is that scum like SUMNER believes that whory old line any publicity is good publicity -- and if one takes such news expectorants at face value that may not always be so. We doubt the current recipient of this fingernail-on-blackboard-scratching press agentry would know a good song if UB IGER clonked her on the head with it (not that UB would know a good song either), and she and her too many handlers are fools enough to worship the scum; at least Judy developed a healthy disrespect for Louie Mayer (although he fed her pills enough to inspire it). All the other reasons this is irritating won't do as this one is at the heart of the nuisance, and as long as pop -- NOISE occupies a level between the earth's crust and its molten core we will have still more PR.