POPSTAR blows the whistle on the "pop music" industry . . .

Rating: 8/10 (12 June 2016)

. . . disclosing that "popular" tunes are simply a random collection of notes and syllables packaged to please the diminished perception of drunken or otherwise impaired youngsters who should be out fighting terrorism, easing poverty, and tackling rapists. The 117 leading "song artists" making cameo appearances here obviously are taking great pride in delivering their spoof lines of Palavered Drivel with straight faces. The funnier thing is that you could read the same sort of Pompous Pontification in any issue of Rolling Stone and its competing Zines including self-styled "music reviews," and the pretensions on display would be even greater assaults against Common Sense and Rational Thinking. Since the advent of Autotune, your Uncle Fred and Aunt Ethel could be the equal of any "Pop Star" selling out stadiums, as long as they are limber enough to simulate obscene body positions (something within the capabilities of any individuals still able to use the toilet by themselves). The definition of "Pop Music" always has been anything that will make someone older than yourself (or the reviewer) cringe. "Pop Music" is NOT fully accessible to pop drinkers, or to people exercising their better judgment. As Brian Wilson had it, BURP SOUNDS better expresses the Essence of Pop. POPSTAR serves as a reminder NOT to take any music written since Bach seriously.