Is that real? I have a suspicion it is. Ever since music took a backseat in 1981 at the onslaught of MTV, the lows they reach nowdays to sell CD`s gets worse and worse. Sometimes I half expect a snuff film to come out as a video. Remember the good old days before the MTV nightmare when music actually sold a musician? Now it`s one azzhole after another putting noise on plastic compensating with sensationalism and shock. Ashlee Simpson is the latest. Here is a woman who has proven about a million times in public that she has about as much of an ear for music as Helen Keller, yet every single place I turn she is promoted relentlessly as the second coming of Mozart. When the hell is this music holocaust ever going to end? I can`t even remember the last time I heard a good song on the radio.
There is still good music being made, but you have to seek it out in live performances in small venues.