Born of
idiocy and the poor ratings of
Australia’s Channel 7, the
POPSTARS project produced from its
shameless loins one of the
world’s first openly,
self-confessed manufactured pop groups. The POPSTARS
television show spanned the
audition and selection process by ‘judges’ from Warner
Music. Amongst apalling renditions of “
My Heart Will Go On” and
mid-drifts emerged a group of final five named
Bardot (after
Bridgette). And out they went into the world, proclaiming that despite their
contrived nature “We’re all just in it FOR THE
MUSIC…” What a proverbial
can of worms this has opened. There’s some things that
society just doesn’t want to
hear; and one is that
mainstream pop culture in the most is
artificial.
Just what were they thinking?
Note: Bardot was also the inspiration for my ‘We are all Popstars rejects’ sticker/t-shirt slogan.