BURSTING THE BUBBLE OF THE WIGGLES AND TALENTLESS REALITY TV STARS IN THE NAME OF REAL MUSIC
I wouldn't have a darn clue who the members of The Wiggles are, other than the one who just got squeezed out of the band to make way for the return of one original member who returned after a lengthy hiatus for health reasons.
His name is Sam Moran and to be totally honest I have no desire to bother finding out who the other members of the band are and what their names are.
His name is Sam Moran and to be totally honest I have no desire to bother finding out who the other members of the band are and what their names are.
As a grown adult with no kids, I think to myself who would really care. The Wiggles for anyone who possibly might be reading my blog from overseas are an overrated and hyped up kids band from Australia who incredibly are monumentally popular and have made an absolute killing in dollar terms by singing the likes of DOROTHY THE DINOSAUR to masses of delirious kids who soak up every single thing the band does.
That is understandable for kids I guess, but give me a break hey, why are all the adults in the media giving this concocted corporate bunch of sing-a-longs all the attention they are at every opportunity?
Put it to this way, I think The Wiggles is really bad news for genuine and legit musical artistry, I think they are worse in that way than reality TV talent quests like Australian Idol.
Put it to this way, I think The Wiggles is really bad news for genuine and legit musical artistry, I think they are worse in that way than reality TV talent quests like Australian Idol.
I wont place the likes of Young Talent Time in that bracket because at least with that show it is young kids performing and having innocent fun and not wannabe grown adults with insecurities attempting to contrive a
sense of purpose and exaggerated fame by trying to seek fame even though the majority of them haven't got a songwriter`s arsehole and ought to be old enough to accept their karma regardless of how boring it is and get on with life.
sense of purpose and exaggerated fame by trying to seek fame even though the majority of them haven't got a songwriter`s arsehole and ought to be old enough to accept their karma regardless of how boring it is and get on with life.
If you were to take the likes of Wes Carr and Damien Leith and a few talented female vocalists out of the entire Australian Idol mix in Australia I really do not believe you are left with any real genuine talent, and even most of them cannot even really write songs.
This is the cynical way in which I view The Wiggles - concocted hype!
I believe the adult population's fixation and addiction to reality TV and creating make believe heros is what feeds the momentum for the industrialisation of the music scene in general, and elevating the mediocre to star status.
I believe the adult population's fixation and addiction to reality TV and creating make believe heros is what feeds the momentum for the industrialisation of the music scene in general, and elevating the mediocre to star status.
The Wiggles also epitomise political
correctness perfectly, like they're a utopian bunch of squeaky clean good samaritans off the street who just turn up out of nowhere like the Easter Bunny, a perfect encapsulation of what we might call wrapping our children up in cotton wool in a nanny state where they are not permitted to listen to good (and bad) old fashioned music which is not sung by The Wiggles or a reality TV star.
I am sorry, but I am just puked off the whole reality TV thing, and The Wiggles are only just a derivative of the whole pretentious "create a hero that doesn't exist" trend that's been going on in the record industry and the media since the early 90`s.
correctness perfectly, like they're a utopian bunch of squeaky clean good samaritans off the street who just turn up out of nowhere like the Easter Bunny, a perfect encapsulation of what we might call wrapping our children up in cotton wool in a nanny state where they are not permitted to listen to good (and bad) old fashioned music which is not sung by The Wiggles or a reality TV star.
I am sorry, but I am just puked off the whole reality TV thing, and The Wiggles are only just a derivative of the whole pretentious "create a hero that doesn't exist" trend that's been going on in the record industry and the media since the early 90`s.
As a very young kid, I was listening to the Grease soundtrack, I was listening to Cold Chisel and ABBA, occasionally I was naughty and I snuck a listen of AC/DC or some other 70`s hard rock.
Did it hurt me listening to some adult orientated music out of young curiosity? - NO. In fact it made me adventurous and experimental from a very early age despite my conservative upbringing and principles, which describes exactly who I still am today at the age of 37.
Word of advise for parents out there, even though I am not a parent, The Wiggles are plain dumb, there is no substance or artistic
talent on display with this band, much sooner have your kids listen to music which falls well outside the reality TV and Wiggles category.
If Sam Moran ends up the lead singer of Van Halen then I will ill have to swallow my words.
Well said. But I cant see the bubble ever bursting for the vast human herd. Mediocrity is massively marketable, for example: look at KFC and mcdonalds, for today's wonderful human "self-aware" and stupefyingly "unaware" social state the mediocre and deluded are heaped with praise by their peers and put on display like so many beiber mcnuggets. junkfood for your body and junkfood for your soul. but if people are too lazy to find their own heroes, their own music and their own truths and rely on popular opinion to force it down their vaguely yearning and far too easily impressed brainwashed gullets then f**k them. so be it. they'll call it art and themselves artists ... We are paying a higher psychic price than we realize.
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