*sigh* Just another trainwreck waiting to happen.

[Vincent, Thunder God]

I listen to music from an era when the focus wasn't on some media image easily accessible to various ridiculous teenage cliques, but the music!

That hasn't happened in, like, a hundred years. :P

For many artists that is still the case now.

Any artist who claims that either has no ambition or is lying. The money is a part of it.

Of course money is a part of it, but my concern is that in the current popular music, money is the only part of it. In my opinion, my favorite bands, most of the progressive rock genre in the 70s, created their music for love of music, which also happened to be their choice of career, not the other way around. I must question that any MTV superstar gives a about the music he makes at all, since it all sounds so - unemotional and unoriginal. It's all about the image, the look, not the music at all. It's really just a marketing machine.