Kid Bands

[badalsharpton]

Originally Posted by OrganisM

This may not be my forum, but it sure as hell isn't yours either. It's not rude to voice opinions, it's rude for you to be a ridiculously pretentious asshole.

In addition, you insulted me solely based upon age.

It does not matter if they were thirty years old, their music is garbage and requires no talent. The only reason they exist is because of their age. The fact that they are still kids makes their playing in a band a novelty, even if their playing sucks. And it allows for their parents to conveniently pay for everything.

Careful what you say about the offer now; I might be too hot to extend it again someday.


And another thing, this is the Tiny Masters' claim to fame, straight from their website:

"In the intervening years, their sound has matured to the point where several songs actually exceed one minute in length."




Congrats for supporting the cookie-cutter mediocrity of the industry. Churning out albums and singles at a young age instead of getting to be any good? How can you compare the skills of real bands to these pitiful excuses for musicians?

And for whichever band it was that has had two or three albums released already when the kids are 14 years old, ouch. That's pathetic. They're contributing to the loads of **** the industry has been clogged up with. Interesting how society adores mediocrity, as do you.

One more thing. I actually did a little searching around on the net before I made statements. The Smoosh girls father is a doctor, and they toured with the Eels. With a sound like that they have to go on novelty alone and I am guessing that their father put up the $$ to pay their way on the tour, because there is no way that if I owned a label and put them on tour that they would be able to break even on their own. They just arent that good. But he wth a keyboard and drum set only, set up is fast.
I read nothing about any of the other kids parents having money. Not from the Flaming Monkeys, Tiny Masters, or Squish. So you cant just make a blanket statement about their parents pushing them to popularity through money like Vanilla Ice and Paris Hilton where talent = 0, but money equals millions and billions.
OK, I correct myself a bit. The drummers father of Squish does own a small music store. But after searching that out on the net, the music store is really small and pretty much insignificant. Knowing what i know about small businesses, especially music stores, competing with the online E giants like Musicians Friend, I am betting he makes a blue collar wage in that store if he is turning a real profit at all.
So without that info, you have to assume they got where they did through hard work, persistence and appealing to the crowd. By the way, I just called and bought a Squish CD. MP3s suck in quality I have found. When a discerning ear is listening it is blatant.