Archiveswriter: American Idol provides “naive, star struck teenagers” to record companies.
American Idol has helped revive the “soaring and soulless power ballad” as it “serves the interests of the state while celebrating the dominant culture’s conformist, market driven values,” a writer argues. Writing in Dissident Voice, Leilla Matsui says that Idol “is the answer in bubble wrap to all that ails an industry desperate to regain its lion’s share of the royalties” and “reflects the blond ambitions behind popular music’s ethnic cleansing,” providing “naive, star struck teenagers” who “are easier to control and manipulate than their unpredictable creative counterparts.”
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writer: American Idol provides “naive, star struck teenagers” to record companies.
link to this story + posted Jun. 8, 2004 at 6:00 AM by Andy Dehnart
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