Baby Baby Baby

Justin Bieber. You heard of him? No? Either did I until this morning. I woke up and tuned into a French music video show. Justin's new song "Baby" was playing. You see Justin is the new breed of teen dreamboats taking the world - or at least the U.S and France - by storm. I'm not going to give a complete biography on this love-troubled Canadian native, just let you know the crux of how this kid got famous. Basically the poncy-twat started uploading his own karaoke videos onto youtube a couple of years ago as a 13 y.o soul singing prodigy. This caught the eye of a SoSoDef marketing exec who flew him to Atlanta and signed him immediately. "Baby" is the culmination of two years of manipulating, commercial moulding, and fringe growing. The song it self does what any good pop song does, It stays in your head. It also racks up an impressive 55 'baby's!! Much more than Aaron Carter or Hanson could ever hope for.

I'm not quite sure where I stand on this manufactured pop-crap that takes over our airwaves. I think music is made for two main reasons. To express one's art through musical ability, their voice, and or instrument. But it also must exist to purely entertain. Sure enough it's manufactured, altered, and then polished squeaky clean to a Disney-worthy shine, but it's catchy. So leave it alone. I mean without this 'pop-crap' our record collections would all be without anything from Motown or Kylie or Elvis. The majority of all the songs from The Temptations, The Four-tops, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5 were pretty much all written by the same three guys. In fact the similarly named Supreme's hit "Baby Love" *12 'baby's* was written by the Holland-Dozier-Holland hit machine.

Let me go on record by saying I don't actually like this kids music. However, I am making a stand to myself to never be one of those people who 'hate' music just because the artist or band has not come from playing dingy clubs in front of no one for 8 years, or busking in the rain from the age of three. Let this kid have his 15 minutes I say. You never know one day one of my karaoke videos might catch the eye of a high powered exec and I could be the next singing about how my first love broke my heart......baby.