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when the entertainment industry chews up the untalented and spits them out very rapidly.
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Jennifer Lopez. Britanny Spears. P Diddy. Michael Bolton. The four most successful "entertainers" of the last five years.
You don't get out much, do you?
Michael Bolton is far from being one of the four most popular entertainers of the last five years or P Diddy either, maybe you meant top 400. P Diddy is not even the most popular rapper and I haven't heard him so I can't say anything about his talent but don't believe him to be as good as Biggie Smalls for one.
I spoke of FIVE DECADES wrt Clapton not five years and you seem to confuse talent with what YOU like, Bolton's type of music is not my taste but is about as good as most of the pleasant kind. JLO and Brittainy have talent just because I don't like them much doesn't make them untalented. Besides much of their "talent" is being nice to look at. JLO certainly isn't as talented as her new hubbie, Marc Anthony.
Apparently you don't get out as much as you think.