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Is it only us, or does it seem these days as you scan the FM radio dial or sit watching MTV searching for some original music by the artist of the day, that its getting harder and harder to differentiate between the content and the commercials?
With their persona and image scripted as carefully as their dance numbers, it's getting increasingly difficult to overlook the fact that the music we hear and the videos we watch have become just another product carefully crafted and manufactured for mass consumption no different than a soft drink or a TV dinner.
And just like the soft drinks and TV dinners, their market value has little to do with the product themselves, but everything to do with the manipulation by the company or corporate label. Behind every high cheek boned, dancing starlet crooning banality over the airwaves, there is the record company carefully pulling all the strings.
And with the proliferation of teen bands popping up every year to live out their fifteen minutes of fame, soiling our artistic unconscious, we decided to conduct a test to better determine just which teen band lowers our standards the most. We organized our test by carefully analyzing the lyrics of four popular "artists": The Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. We analyzed the lyrics using criteria such as average word length, percentage of unique words, and for the appearance of overused words such as "Baby", "Love" and "Heart".
With our results we were able to finally and scientifically determine which teen band or star lowers our standards the most.
But before we get to our results, let's take a look at the world of teen bands.
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