re: #117 Atlas Fails

God, MTV is a wasteland. Gaga, Britney (however the hell you spell it) Spears, and Beyonce all performing mediocre to awful songs in clown suits right now. Sometimes I think music died with Kurt Cobain, but then I console myself with some Arcade Fire and feel a little less hopeless. To be fair, many modern rappers are very talented, just not my preferred genre (though I love Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.)

Britney’s always relied more on the ‘spectacle’ aspect of the music business, rather than artistic talent. People do buy her music, though, as well as tickets to her shows.