Teen pop has got it bad. Well, Britney stripped off her clothes with reckless abandon on stage, Willa Ford wore shirts that held a little too generous of a peek-a-boo front, and Jessica Simpson and Mandy Moore didn't keep their promises to keep the clothes on and the image intact. Suddenly, the wholesome image of pop music from the good days of polished pop acts like Michael Jackson, En Vogue, and TLC have gone to waste and are being diluted by clothes that show premature cleavage, and um…shall we say...leave nothing to the senile imagination of our dear old grand-dads and pubescent young boys, who cannot decipher between decent and trashy.
EVERYTHING has gone
to waste! “Sex sells” is the slogan so the clothes come off before the voice
training lessons kick off. Why do we have to undergo all the ripped jeans,
cut-off navel baring tee shirts, and pink puffy outlandish Afro hair, you would
ask? I really do not know. Us, as the fans (or anti-fans) are kind of getting
bored with all of this. There is no intrigue; or pure undiluted talent, no raw
skill, and there certainly isn’t any untapped innocence in their music or
their images. Where did it all go…with the demise of the Spice Girls?
I miss the beginning of 1998. Girls knew how to dress. You know: tank tops, baggy jeans, boots, and other normal stuff that every pre-teen fan could relate to either that it could be found in their wardrobe or in their moms. Girls still know how to dress, a la Julia Roberts with her classy yet demure style; but there are some girls getting the junk into their minds, corrupting the naïve few. Do you really want to wear that bed sheet to the Oscars, Jennifer Lopez? And when she does, the Press has the temerity to list her as one of the best-dressed women of the evening. Aren’t they biting the same bullet they triggered off? They curse teen princesses for being too sexy too soon but they hail J.Lo for forgetting her undergarment…have we lost any sense of decency?
Alternatively, they
(the teen pop divas) portray different people on the insides giving off very
positive images such as: non-smoking, no underage drinking, safe sex, no
pre-marital sex, coupled with strong participations in various charitable acts
and organizations. Thus, confusing the average 14 year-old as to what image to
believe…that of the lusty song-stress who just wriggled on the floor as she
rendered one of her sultry love songs, or the shy girl next door lurking inside
her who just preached to her about waiting to fornicate at the right time.
Today, it seems the
men wear more clothing than the girls do. The Backstreet Boys have managed to
maintain a strong chart-topping career without taking off a stitch of clothing.
The same goes for *NSYNC who have failed to perform any of their energizing
dance tunes bare-chested. I don't
know if the boys will take it off in the future, but one band I know won't EVER
take it off is BBMak. How do I know this? Let's just say they are pretty boys
from the UK who have come to relinquish the dwindling image of the pop music
industry where they’re cohorts the Spice Girls left it. Now do you get me?
Therefore, in summary, of I would like to say:
IF YOU ARE EVER GOING TO BE A BUBBLE GUM POP PRINCESS PLEASE WEAR CLOTHING THAT WILL MAKE YOU LOOK YOUR AGE. Stop confusing the teens, if you want hard rock where you can take off all the clothes then go off to join Limp Bizkit, but don’t preach to me and come tugging off your clothes in the same breath…I am getting confused and so are my fellow teens. My case is closed.