The music business is strange. It is an industry where an artist (or - generally - a team of artists and technicians) create music, which is then copied to meet demand and sold. There are no singular "one of a kind" pieces of work - the very nature of it is that it can be duplicated exactly. A well written song or concerto is replayed and re-recorded through the years by various other artists who are touched by the original composition.
In modern music, though, success and recognition is often add odds with the originality of the work, and the skill of the performer. Talented musicians watch in despair as less talented and creative-impaired contemporaries capture the attention of the fickle music-consuming public, and become wildly rich and successfully. Being attractive and willing to dress provocatively certainly helps.
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