You don't think that Maroon 5 is talented? Watchable?
Who would be your picks to do the show?
Pfff, here's a pretty simple test you can use to figure out if a band is or isn't talented/watchable (listenable really).
If you go to any song on their list and they have multiple songwriters that are not actual members of that group, they're probably not talented or listenable.
Any given Maroon 5 song will have anywhere between 3 to 6 songwriters on payroll to "help" Adam Levine right music for his album. Not to mention, the albums have like a dozen co-producers. Why does a single album need that many producers!?
Look at David Bowie's body of work. 25 albums, and he co-produced or produced every one from Hunky Dory and with VERY few exceptions, he is the sole songwriter for all of his material.
I know I shouldn't hold Adam Levine up to the same standard as the Thin White Duke, and honestly the idea of comparing the two is making my stomach turn, but it shouldn't be too much to hold pop stars to a certain legitimate artistic standard, and stop half-assing it in the creative department.
Sad thing is that what Maroon 5 does is extremely common in the mainstream. You have a handful of songwriters hired by these music labels to write music for these mainsteam stars and they completely saturate the top of the charts. You look at Billboard's top 100 songs, and pretty much all of them have several independent co-songwriters.
There have always been music stars that have utilized co-songwriters, but it is FAR more prominent now than it has ever been.
