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. 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 &
hyped up kids band from Australia who incredibly
are monumentally popular and have made an ab-
solute killing in dollar terms by singing the likes
of DOROTHY THE DINOSAUR to masses of deli-
rious 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 concoc-
ted corporate bunch of sing-a-longs all the
attention they are at every oppurtunity?
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 & exagerrated fame by trying
to seek fame even though the majority of them
haven't got a songwriter`s arsehole and oughta
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 & 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. The Wiggles also epitomise political
correctness perfectly, like they're a utopian bunch
of squeeky clean good samaritans off the street
who just turn up out of nowhere like the Easter
Bunny, a perfect escpaulation of what we might
call wrapping our children up in cotton wool in a
nanny state where they are not permitted to lis-
ten 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 indus-
try and the media since the early 90`s. As a very
young kid, i was listening to the Grease sound-
track, 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 mu-
sic out of young curiosity - NO. In fact it made
me adventurous and experimental from a very
early age despite my conservative upgringing
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 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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