Music, or just a pretty face?

The music industry these days is just that, an industry. It's hard to find artists or bands that put their whole hearted passion into their music (let alone those who are actually musically talented), this is especially true for mainstream music that we are most exposed to through our radios, televisions and just any other medium you can think of. We hear artists such as 'pop queen' Britney Spears, T Pain, or even Paramore, what these artists (and many, many more like them) have in common is that they are 100% owned by a record company. Britney Spears is a face for whatever label she is signed up to, someone else writes her music for her, someone else picks out her outfits for her, and there is even someone to change her voice completely through auto-tuning (this can make anyone a 'great' singer). What a record company looks for in a potential artist or pop star is first a pretty face, if someone is an excellent musician, but has some sort of undesirable facial feature, they are generally not even considered as an option. True talent is discarded because of the simple fact that men won't swoon over her, or girls won't be crazy for them. The style and presence of 'pop' music has changed throughout the years, trying to keep up with the ever changing times, likes and dislikes of the general public. Pop was once considered the Beetles, or even the Smiths way back when. Both of these bands started whole revolutions, the Beetles were the dawn of nearly an entirely new genre, and the Smiths were one of the first popular bands to utilize a synthesizer in their songs and have a good reaction. These bands and musicians had to actually be talented enough to not only play music but to write it also. Many (not all) mainstream pop bands these days are consisting of very talented members, and once again revolve around a particular look or style that appeals to the target audience, although bands are lucky, there can be just one good looking, center of attention kind of member of the band to keep eyes off all others. The negative thing about many mainstream bands is that the record company get a bunch of talented guitarists together and pick out the one that best fits their desired look, then they do the same with a bassist, a drummer, a singer and whatever other instruments they may want to incorporate. These bands don't know each other apart from through their band (who once again get most music written for them), and this is the worst way to start up playing music. Music is supposed to come form the heart, but when people who don't know each other or have any previous history with one another get together to create music, some times it can be obvious through the lack of heart, as they're all just playing their separate parts as opposed to coming together as one musical piece. Once again these bands are put together for the right look that corresponds to what most people who tune into the radio want to hear, and see in the performers. Although these forms of creating music obviously sell millions of records very easily, it's almost making a mockery of true music. There is very little passion or outstanding talent left in music these days. Many, many bands that have so much heart and actual meaning or depth behind their music are over looked because they don't fit the right look, or their voice doesn't sound like a keyboard. this is all ridiculous, music is about passion, expression and heart none of which is possessed by 85 percent of 'musicians' played on the radio. Music has nearly become all about making big money as opposed to expression.