Geese and the Requirements of an Industry
The band Geese is everywhere.
I can't go anywhere on the Web without seeing an article about them. They're the big, new, hot rock band.
There's only one problem: they suck.
The first time I heard one of their songs I started laughing because it was so bad. I'd heard so much hype that I expected it to be terrific, but it wasn't even serviceable.
Zero creativity and zero innovation. Everything they do has been done much better by other bands.
This made me wonder why they're getting so much promotion, and it made me realize something I should have understood decades ago.
Think of promotion as the music industrial complex, for lack of a better description. Over decades, the skeleton of this beast has grown and grown. It's huge now, and it feeds on stars.
Without the stars, thousands and thousands of people lose their jobs.
So no matter the basic level of band quality in an era, stars must be produced and promoted as if they were dropped straight from music heaven.
It can't ever stop.
This explains Foreigner and Poison and quite a few other bands. They weren't great or even average, but they existed in a time of thin talent and became stars.
The show must go on, as they say. Even when it makes you cringe.
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