As of right now, these 'artists' are in the top ten of the most downloaded songs on itunes. Ludacris, jojo, Justin Timberlake, Fergie, and Beyonce. I don't want to knock anyones taste in music... ...Ok I do. What the fuck are people thinking??? I don't want to live in a world where pretty little poptarts like jojo get ranked in the top ten and go platinum while awesome bands like the Ranconteurs or Pas/Cal fall by the wayside. I don't want to live in a world where the average teenager's knowlege of musical history doesn't even span back far enough to remember a time when MTV actually played videos, let alone far enough to appreciate the founders and gods of the medium. Chuck Berry, Elvis, Carl Perkins, The Beatles, The Who, Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin. To todays audiences, Led Zeppelin is a t-shirt they saw in Hot Topic, not one of the immortal gods of rock. Stevie Wonder is some blind guy they saw Eddie Murphy doing on a re-run of Saturday Night Live. Isn't that guy from The Who into kiddie porn? Chuck who? Standards have been lowered so far that nearly anything is accepted as a 'song'. Listen to Justin Timberlake's newest song. Get yer sexy on, lather rinse repeat for 3 minutes, BANG! Musical Gold!!! How did things get so low? If you ask me, it all started when hip-hop and rap began to invade mainstream music. Suddenly, any idiot with a few old records and a sampled drum beat was an 'artist'. I think if the kids today could be shown the wealth of music there is out there that goes beyond what happened 5 minutes ago, they would be amazed. Then they would be stunned at how shitty all the crap they have on their ipod really is.