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i used to love the classic Disney Cartoons as a kid they did great in the 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s and early 20000s back when i really loved disney i used enjoy toon disney becuase it had wonderful cartoons but whats popular with Disney now is shows that i really cant stand such as Ant Farm Austin and Ally Shake it Up Good Luck Charlie and i regret the days when Hannah Montana Wizards of Waverly Place and Jonas were popular im real sick of it why did that all happen (link)
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The answer to "why did it happen" is that it's cheaper to manufacture a marketable appearance than to find and retain talented artists and writers.
Britney Spears isn't an alcoholic trailer park hick because she was physically beautiful and willing to trade her sexuality for obscene amounts of money. She has no talent at all, if you've ever heard her sing live and unprepared it sounds like something that would end up on the worst of American Idol. But some soundboard wizardry and sexy outfits and they had a sexual icon who sold platinum records to stupid teenagers without enough sense to be able to see the transparent shit that they were told was something they should like.
Take that and apply it to Miley Cyrus. Look at her behavior now. Disney trades on wholesome. That's what they sell, that's what their customers want, so that's what Hannah Montana was. People were all "Oh look she's so great, she's nice and respectable and proper" and they ascribed it to Miley, not to the character she was told to play for the camera.
Now we have the opposite, Miley Cyrus is just another Britney Spears, trading her sexuality for more money before she ages to the point that teens see her as old and she loses the jailbait appeal for everyone older than that, because once that's gone she's going to be nothing other than the once famous daughter of a has been singer.
Let's look back at the 80s. Music was made for adults. Movies were made for adults. Even the cartoons, I can still watch and laugh at Transformers and Thundercats. It was produced by talented artists, because that's what adults wanted.
The 90s was the discovery that advertising to adults is alot less effective than advertising to children. Children are young, impressionable, and lack the life experience or maturity to figure out and define what they want for themselves. Instead we have a constant bombardment of advertising so that by 13 years of age boys think they want to have sex with Britney Spears and girls think they want to be her. It's not until later in adulthood that these kids grow up and realize that Britney was probably a boring lay who is easily out-shined by non famous women who don't depend upon a marketed appearance to impress someone in bed and women realize that the way you look matters less to the people you actually care about in your life than who you are as a person.
And if you want to know who's really at fault? Our parents. Our parents stood by and watched this happen. They bought us Britney Spears and Jonas Brothers and Fallout Boy and Miley Cyrus merchandise, they paid for the concerts, they decided that it was easier to cave to the establishment than to teach their kids to have self respect and taste. Instead of organizing and refusing to accept society, they rolled over like a collective generation of lazy, self absorbed cowards. That's why our government is a mess and our freedoms are gone, that's why our media is shit and the music industry is foundering, that's why we have a massive epidemic of eating disorders as people accept the advertisement of body shapes that do not exist anywhere in nature.
There are two types of people who see an airbrushed magazine cover that represents nothing real about a person and think "that's beautiful"
Pathetic people and children who don't know any better. Our parents were pathetic, and we had to grow up before we could begin to learn any better.
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Thank you for letting me know I am not alone in this! :) You are even angrier than I am about it!
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