More Ark Music Factory "artists."

So after diving ankle-deep into Rebecca Black's abysmal "Friday," I had a look at the other silly little girls making "music" thanks to Ark Music Factory. The company's name is apt, as each of these songs is interchangeable with more than a couple featuring the "ARK" name intoned at the beginning of the fricking song.

Which leads me to ask, if you're the rich-ass parents of these kids sending them off to record shitty music in hopes that you can then ride their coattails to fame and fortune, why the hell would you pay to have a song written and recorded that does nothing but promote the so-called "label" (which it isn't) in the actual song? All I can say is please stop wasting your money, even if you have it to waste. Your kids aren't going to make it like this. If they have real talent, help them nurture it and encourage it, but don't go whoring them out just because the music business is currently in its death throes and will give head to anything with an auto-tuned vocal in it. That's part of the reason why the biz is in the shitter. But you wouldn't know anything about that because you're too eager to cash in your own kid's happiness for your gain. Fuck all y'all.

Anyway, here's four more terrible Ark products for you to compare. Alana Lee's "Butterflies," Abby Victor's "Crush On You," and Sarah Maugaotega's "Take It Easy." Then get ready to top it off with the frightening "Ordinary Pop Star" sun by CJ Fam. One of the YouTube commenters writes, "This is the next radio masterpiece. soon everyone will know of CJ's true skill. I have heard this girl sing live, she is no fake.  The real deal."

"True skill"? More like true disaster. Enjoy your parents' dementia, kids.

That whole Rebecca Black and her "Friday" thing.

I know. Another blogger talking about this chick who really can't sing at all and her terrible song that her mom lovingly got for her to record and the evil Ark music dudes who are going to reap the "benefit." Well, this isn't about all those things, per se.

What it is about is the video of Rebecca appearing on Good Morning America performing the song. And it's not so much the song I want you to focus on the people in her band and the dude who gives the high-five to someone off camera after the second round of "partyin'" or whatever the hell that bit is.

Was the high-five really done as some sort of gesture of "Yeah we did it!" mentality, or was it more of a "Yeah, I can't believe this garbage is really popular!"? Whatever the case may be, I seriously need to start figuring out how I can literally become famous overnight on YouTube and finally make my fortune.

Camel Ike podcast births again!

I'm a couple days late posting about it here. Yes, what kind of blogsmith am I, right? But, feel free to head on over to the Camel Ike podcast page for another groovy episode of music to dig. Rock on.