Brittney, Aguillera, Shakira etc... + "boy" bands, like in sync and so on.
Wasn't it about 20 years ago when record companies were going out and finding Tall , thin, big-haired bands with androgenous front men to sign and mass market? Forget that most of those bands (with few exceptions) put out a product that Nuno called "chocolate covered sh*t", All polished on the surface , but underneath there was garbage.
Now don't get me wrong, Brittney and Christina can SING, but you have to wonder, if they each weighed 200Lbs, would they have gotten signed? extremely doubtful.
Then you have truly amazing artists like PJ Harvey,Siouxsie, even Annie Lennox who get 0 publicity. (in the U.S. anyway)
It seems that once again, image has taken precedence over musicality. Oh one more thing, why is it that wmoen in their 20s, and 30s can gush about insync and how gorgeous they are but when a 30 something guy makes a comment about Brittney, he's perceived as a pervert/pedophile? Not fair is it?