Is Gwen Stafani the most respected female artist in popular music?

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by bigdaddysuperfreak I will say you never see any negative press on her, but that might just be that she is boring.

Wwll, part of that is that critics and the like are pressed to come up with POSITIVE reviews. Most of the press you'll see is from sources that are pressured, or sources within the business. She'd have to pull a Jacko before she really got any negative press. It's somewhat in the lines of what Moona...Errrr...Cappy ranted about in his shots at the pop industry (Generic and safe though they may be).

Musicians are hot or they're not, and if you don't push what's hot as part of the media, you can find yourself without a job fast.

[El Capitano Gatisto]

Originally Posted by Kane Knight Wwll, part of that is that critics and the like are pressed to come up with POSITIVE reviews. Most of the press you'll see is from sources that are pressured, or sources within the business. She'd have to pull a Jacko before she really got any negative press. It's somewhat in the lines of what Moona...Errrr...Cappy ranted about in his shots at the pop industry (Generic and safe though they may be).

I wasn't ranting at the pop industry, though. I was ranting at the pop industry BCWWF is talking about, the celebrity mag Paparazzi-driven gossip industry.

Most of the music I listen to is unashamedly pop music, unashamedly mainstream. I have no problem with it. So put your dick away and stop trying to out-cynic me.

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by El Capitano Gatisto So put your dick away and stop trying to out-cynic me.

I'm not trying to. You can be the mopingest bitch on the planet for all I care. Your random pre-fab rants about safe music industry topics are cute, but nothing I have any interest in emulating. I have enough reasons to argue about pop music without resorting to clichéd, semi-accurate pissing and moaning over the nature of respect in terms of pop music.

[El Capitano Gatisto]

Originally Posted by Kane Knight I'm not trying to. You can be the mopingest bitch on the planet for all I care. Your random pre-fab rants about safe music industry topics are cute, but nothing I have any interest in emulating. I have enough reasons to argue about pop music without resorting to clichéd, semi-accurate pissing and moaning over the nature of respect in terms of pop music.

They're not random if they pertain to the topic, which is how BCWWF finds Gwen Stefani to be the most respected artist in the narrow confines of his view of the pop world.

I'm not moaning about anything, I pay little heed to that type of music and it doesn't bother me, I merely commented on the nature of the attention and critical focus of the tabloid media on such artists as those BCWWF has been mentioning.

I wouldn't be saying this if you hadn't taken it upon yourself to make a fairly needless and ridiculous personal aside towards me. It's like you feel you need to do it every so often to give yourself a little boost. Invent an arguement that doesn't exist, in other words.