"Popstar" in the making

Today I heard a song from the newest teenpop"star" from Finland. And I have to admit -- it was probably the worst autotune crap I've heard coming from Finland in ages!

Tuuli - Salaisuudet

Kinda reminds you of PONPONPON by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu doesn't it?

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - PONPONPON

While taking a closer look, it looks like the entire set of Tuuli's song was copied from PONPONPON, albeit minor changes had been made such as changing the color of the wall.

Too bad they didn't go all the way and change the pattern as well to make it a less obvious copy.

Moving on from the obvious copying of the set, I find it funny how 20-year-olds, with actual talent and skill, get turned down by record labels because they think that those people won't "fit the industry" because they "don't understand what it really takes to make it" and suddenly a 13-year-old girl is their newest star..what the fuck does a 13-year-old know about the industry or about how much work it really takes to make it?! I wonder what they have planned for this "future star"..prehaps a movie just like with Robin about "how much work it was to get that one hit single and a crappy album riding on that one song out"? What about a musical? The options are endless, and these teens are really just the cashcows of the music industry, they and their parents think they get the best possible contracts and other stuff, when in reality the labels try to pull off all the stops to make as much money in their own pocket as possible. When these teens reach puberty, all of their sheen will be gone because they've been overpromoted and overworked. Their voices will change, period. And what happens to them after that? The industry will just find some new teens with some looks and a decent voice that they can fix up with autotune to burn out and throw the old ones to trash. And then what? Only time will tell...

OK I'll just cut it here so I won't end up with a post filling an entire page. And I'll possibly continue with this tomorrow, but now I'm off to bed!

PONPONPON will be the Song of the Day for today since at this hour I can't bother with anything else, besides it's so weird that the chorus can, possibly, in some weird masochistic way get stuck in your head for quite some time.