Surely the fact that you're now tired of them
indicates that there isn't really much substance to their music, certainly not enough to keep you entertained in the long term, which in turn indicates that they were probably signed because they have an attractive girl singing for them. Musically, they're not the worse band around, but if you go down to any metal night in manchester you can find 20 bands that sound the same as them, just like you could before people had heard of Paramore.

Bands like that don't get signed on how good their music is, they get signed on how marketable they are. their musical ability is probably the third thing that gets looked at by A&R after looks and age.

The Gossip are a band that functions in a genre that relies on people being unusual to sell records not necessarily attractive. the irony is, if beth Ditto didn't weigh 25 stone, you'd probably never have fucking heard of them either.

It all points to one completely shit and depressing fact: whether you get signed or not doesn't depend on whether you can play good music, it depends on whether you can be marketed to a specific audience.
( PMGT -Bacon., Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:15, Reply)