mercenary art

The popular music in 20th and 21st are always made for money. These canned music have no merit in the world except making some rich guys richer.

The common traits of the mercenary music are:

• Sad lyric which is about love scene, or
  
• Lyric which ignites hatred, and full of swear words
• Lyric is more important than music itself
• Sexiness of the singer is far more crucial than the lyric
  
• Cliché harmonic progression
• Primary market target is 13~30 years old female
• unproffesionally mix up heaps styles
• Only one song in whole album is hit
• Even some "artists" only has one hit in their first album, and it is the only hit in his whole career. eg. Savage Garden

In my definition, these "artists" are not musicians; they are merely music merchandisers. They sell music which all are similar. They concern nothing about the authenticity of art but MONEY. The real music views the spirit of art in a higher level than money. Musicians would rather starve to death than degenerating their own art pieces.

I am not cynic in this facet. In the centuries which capitalism rules, most people from the poverty background are cultivated with the cognizance that money is the inication of success. They would mix up the value of everything with money, and numerise withal evaluate everything by money. This is a hazard which would extirpate the art culture even human civilization in the future.