Cash rules everything around me...

Yeah, when something is done to the point of overkill it loses it's edge. The current state of the corporate controlled music business is all about the bottom line which means less room for originality and artist development. The trend continues toward formulaic themes and over the top gimmicks.

Yeah, when something is done to the point of overkill it loses it's edge. The current state of the corporate controlled music business is all about the bottom line which means less room for originality and artist development. The trend continues toward formulaic themes and over the top gimmicks.

Yeah, when something is done to the point of overkill it loses it's edge. The current state of the corporate controlled music business is all about the bottom line which means less room for originality and artist development. The trend continues toward formulaic themes and over the top gimmicks.

Yeah and that's basically why I can't really follow what those guys do anymore, it's like anything these current crop of people do is for shock value and artistry is secondary.

I don't like it. Think it's sexist or rather anti-woman to say the least. The concept of this type of art is that women are not really human but rather a sum of parts that can be manipulated, altered, traded and controlled by the user.

I don't think they are ALL referencing Metropolis either



it just looks a bit same-y to me

That's the vibe I am getting from this: "fembot"

I didn't see this image trend catching on with any male singers.

That's the vibe I am getting from this: "fembot"

I didn't see this image trend catching on with any male singers.

That bothers me as well. It not only stops there though; you aren't just miserable as a career woman and supposedly can't find a man....you're also potentially lesbian as we are seeing with our next possible supreme court justice and all the gossip that surrounds her because she is of a certain age and unmarried.

It's a given to me that men will perpetuate these types of images but when women feed into it, it's especially troubling because it seems that we have not come as far as we think we have.

We have little girls dancing around in bikinis to Bey's single ladies. We have one of the strongest female vocalists (Christina Aguilera) parading around like a second rate Brittney Spears and we have Beyonce who is a very talented singer IMHO wearing dresses that seem to get shorter and shorter with each video. Plus my goddess Mariah done lost her mind.

I wonder why any female music artists who believes she can sing and supposedly writes, plays an instrument and provokes and inspires would feel the need to either bare her body or make herself out to be a product off the Cyberdine systems manufacturing line. And we wonder why Niki Minaj is so popular.

I agree with ya Cinne. Especially since none of these women do anything robotic in/with the albums (like vocal effects or dancing), lol. I like when album covers actually correspond to the music. What's the point of dressing like a robot when nothing about your image is robotic?

So how about a Kraftwerk OR a Devo reunion album already?!?

I'll take this over the typical teen tart look all day, every day!

Cinnie & Desire, you might find what I'm about to same as potentially borderline sexist, but it's not intended to be taken as such. But....

I think male artists are better at selling the robotic gimmick as entertainment than female artist.

Kraftwerk, Roger/Zapp, Midnight Star, & Daft Punk knew on to do it right.

Kraftwerk especially because those 4 original band members were not only in control of their imagie & creativity, but they used to take it a step further in builting their own synths & drum machines. No record executive told them to do it. These men did it because they wanted to break new ground in the music industry and they had the tracks to back it up.

Now in comparing to what is going on with today's female artists going robotic, I do NOT see the kind of drive (no pun intended) inside them that wanted to take the music industry to the next level as much as I could see the drive that was pushing Kraftwerk back in the days. All I see is a bunch of females that knows that they are puppets (fembots) and they can NOT do anything else but copying off each other.

They're all beauties in their natural form, though.

What kind of art director chooses to do that to Christina Aguilera's face??

They don't have to be in headwraps and peacock feathers like india.arie but DAMN

I mean.. I know their beats are programmed and they got the autotune but

In my opinion, any attempt to make Christina Aguilera even slightly interesting is a good attempt.