The people in the country at the time are largely responsible as they are the people who bought the records. Take That, Jason Donovan, Blue, Kylie Monique, Britney Spears, Madonna, Boyzone, The Spice Girls… do i need to go on? Kids born in the 80’s grew up without realising that music came from instruments!

Thankfully though people got extremely sick and tired of it all!! Bands such as The Verve and Coldplay started to rise in the ranks, Oasis and Blur had always bucked the trend but coming into more recent years (the last 10) bands have risen again! Some of them are crap! some of them are just plain weired! but the thing is they are back, people send a message to the record industry which probably went along the lines of ’stop ruining my life with crap music’ and all of a sudden there are a lot of bands back in the charts and back to stay, The media could largely be responsible, the televising of events such as Glastonbury gives that part of the industry the exposure it needs.

Today i believe there is a good balance. Bands are doing very well for themselfs and the industry has its puppets; for example Little Boots has slammed onto the scene, i like her, i like her music but how much of all this has been the industry deciding its her time?