Agreed
But the difference is that the Beatles wrote their own songs and played their own instruments. The Kinks could play instruments hell even the monkees could play. Give a guitar to one of Steps and they would probably chip a nail and then disgard it with disgust (or try and eat it).
There is nothing wrong with pop music and i have nothing against it. It isn't meant to be taken seriously but recently with Cowells corporate Karaoke machine everything released is a different variation on the same old soulless, ball less, edge less shit that everyone else is producing. Ok i'll give you that some of the bands that you mentioned are pretty decent(Saw the Arctic Monkeys when they played Sheffield and they were great) but they aren't pop and they are vastly outnumbered by the shit peddlers out there.
Where are the musicians of this generation who produce music that is torn from their souls?
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:23, 3 replies)

Pop music is entertainment,
not art. It doesn't need to be ripped from your soul.

Fucking emos.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:33, closed)

You'v summed everything up beautifully.
Jelly of you for seeing the Artic monkeys and yes Cowell is a demon, an evil evil demon.
(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:34, closed)

"Where are the musicians of this generation who produce music that is torn from their souls?"
Hopefully bypassing SonyEMICowellspunk inc, and getting their music directly out there on faceplantbook or whatever else you kids use these days...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:58, closed)