I have to agree with what Meat has said and several of you that the artists created in that way, through Simon Cowell and through the process of a short lived tv season do not seem, for the most part, to create material to the same standard as Pinky Floyd, Bowie, Bon Jovi, the Stones, dylan....there is no comparison whatsoever.
But I completely agree with jcmoorehead. I am pretty young, and I listen to a lot of david gilmour, meat loaf, metallica, neil young, bon jovi....Artists that are tried and true and create and evolve with time. But at the same time, I'm in on the Canadian local music scene and I can assure you that there is a lot of young talent out there that is fighting through the ranks with their own material and personality. Most of them do NOT make it to the charts, or the Grammys, or most of the comercialized systems that seem to recognize the same, limited group and style of artists each year. The local bands have their own talent, and are fighting in the same way Meat did. Their albums carry heavy meaning and do have a storyline or idea behind it. I think the problem is not that real talent doesn't exist...but that for some idiotic reason the media and television focus, for the most part on talentless well marketed musicians.
And yes, I am now opening myself up for debate here
