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Manufactured Noise

“I’ve got my sights set on you,

and I’m ready to aim.

I’ve got a heart that will never be tamed.

I knew you were something special when you spoke my name.

… and I can’t wait to see you again.”

This is a song by ‘Hannah Montana.’  Beyond the obviously contrived and terrible lyrics, I wonder if anyone has told Mrs. Cyrus… setting your sites at someone is aiming.  Regardless, this is a good example on the type of dull garbage the music industry has been heaping on top of everyone’s heads for the past two decades, maybe even longer.   Hannah/Milly here is just another hack who utterly lacks any substance in her music who they will parade around until the precise moment her record sales slip.  Harsh, yes, but much like many singles artists people like her should go away and sink back into obscurity where they belong.  There is an endless surge of new ‘artists,’ if that’s what you want to call them, who do nothing but continue the slow and voracious march towards further stupefying the younger generations and turning them into a population bent only on fucking and buying shit they don’t need with money they don’t have.

Now, in order to indoctrinate the youth into being nice, stupid, and self-centered consumers the record industry has unleashed it’s most insidious of inventions.  Kidz Bop.   Note the ‘z’ implying that children are too fucking stupid to spell words properly but also that they will enjoy pop songs with lyrics primarily consisting of highly sexually suggestive messages, selfishness, cliche’ love songs, and general stupidity.   It’s bad enough having to listen to the Pussycat Dolls without having the lyrics sang by a bunch of little kids off-key.   Actually, in retrospect, that might be an improvement over the regular singers, but only slightly.

It’s well known that pop songs are written by little trolls that work for the recording industry and primarily write whatever will appeal to the lowest common denominator to sell records.   It’s just sometimes worthwhile to explore the lyrical content of these songs too see how low the lowest common denominator is.  So I, being the brave soul that I am, decided to look up the lyrics at random to various songs appearing on the Kidz Bop CDs.   A process I assure you, that was not only painful but mind-numbing.  As you will soon find out, now lets see what awesome lyrics they are exposing children to as ‘kid-friendly.’ 

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Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand