This one does make me sad, but in the grand scheme of things I also don't give it much value.
So they have more songs on Billboard's Hot 100 that any other "artist" (my first point of rejection; these are show-tunes afterall… at least Sunny and Cher wrote some of their own stuff).
I don't like the Hot 100 much anyway. It's a high school yearbook sort of popularity contest more than who is making the best music. And now it seems to have proven itself even less significant as a measure of Music.
So what does it mean? Nothing. It means that there's a TV show that's really good at cranking out eleborate covers.
It means that… well DUH! if a "band" can have its own show on television every week that there's a mighty fine chance it will be a massive marketing push for whatever music is being released.
It means that people will listen to music because they like a well-played cynical character who wears track suits and never sings.
It means that it would be really nice if someone out there would start giving prime time slots to real musicians and artists out there who who can actually contribute to the musical culture and ecosystem. Why not a weekly best indie artists every night at 9pm on NBC? I'd watch it!
But alas… Elvis, and the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and Bob Marley, and Led Zeppelin, and Stevie Wonder, and Miles Davis, and Michael Jackson, and The Police, and Marvin Gaye, and even the Monkey's who actually had their own darn TV show have all been surpassed by Glee… whatever the hell that is, and for whatever the hell that *really* means for music.
