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John,

$#@!#! I love your post!

Style, unfortunately, does win over talent these days in our Music Industry.

If you can measure the amount of actual talent that we have in the industry today and compare it to the kind of talent we had in the 70's and 80's, you may find that artists in the past had MUCH more talent than the artists the record industry forces on us today.

Where are artists/bands with the same caliber of talent as Prince, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson (when he was cool), The Commodores, Stevie Wonder, Nirvana? I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.

Maybe the record industry should take a good, long, hard look at itself and figure out that maybe it should look for "real" talent. People who can actually sing and/or play an instrument.