this girl CANNOT sing. it kills me how many talented musicians there are who spend their lives tirelessly honing their craft and never even get to sniff a chance at getting their music heard. I guess if your parents have thousands of $$ to blow on a throwaway vanity song, you can be famous too!
Why does Lady Gaga act like a nut-job? Why did William Hung get a record deal after bombing on ideal? How has Britney Spears been so successful? Actual talent unfortunately means very little.
Well, Lady Gaga has no business being mentioned with those names. She has one of the best voices in music today. Not to mention, she writes her own music and plays instruments. Plus, she could write a book on how to market herself. Talent most certainly isn't an issue with her. And the point is if you listen to Rebecca Black sing acapella you can tell she has a decent voice. She just needs to drop the auto-tune, get better songs and maybe people will start taking her seriously.
This. But most of those talented musicians are secure and actually play for the love of it, and money and fame seems to be only icing on the cake. If you actually listen to the "meaning" of this song, she's basically flippin' off to her haters and bragging about her underserved fame and basking in it unbashedly.
That's my issue. I understand the appeal of generic Disney to a subset of the population. This is way worse than that, though. (At least worse than any of the "good" Disney stuff that gets popular-ish)
The song itself is taken from Pop Song Template #1. Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus (with instruments dropped out) Chorus (with instruments back in) Abrupt ending You'd be surprised how many country artists use this EXACT template (with perhaps a short guitar solo between the bridge and chorus with instruments dropped out) for songs on the radio right now.
That's my point. Lady Gaga is one of the most talented musicians out there right now, but would she have gotten noticed if she relied solely on that and hadn't come up with this act? Same for Rebecca Black. She got millions of hits off a terrible song. I'm willing to bet she would barely have scratched a thousand if she sung it with an unaltered voice. And on the flipside you got two singers who shouldn't have had any success in the music industry because they lack any true talent. It's not about your skill alone. It's about how well you can be marketed, how much of an ass you can be and/or how many idiots are willing to buy into it.
50% of all human beings are mediocre singers. The remaining 50% is made primarily of those who are incapable (tone deaf/weak vocal chords/complete absence of technique/mute and/or deaf) at say 38%, partly of those who have genuine talent and some real time practicing and who usually sound really good on karaoke night at around 11%, and a small percentage of phenomenal singers who have either an incredibly expressive voice that really communicates character and/or emotion, or those who have years of practice and an insane dedication to technique (sometimes these two characteristics are found in the same person, but not very often) at about 1%. It should be obvious that many people who are famous as (ostensibly) "singers" come from the mediocre 50%. Those handful in the mass-media public eye who are called "great singers" usually have the same talent as the sort of people who really wow the audience on a karaoke night (except they're usually more attractive than the average karaoke singer). People who come from the top 1% often get known as well, but only to a limited segment of the populace as those people rarely choose the path of fame and more often choose places where they believe they can either really express themselves or those places where they believe the majority of their audience will actually be able to appreciate their talent and dedication and not just their media saturation and the skills of their marketing team.
