While there has really always been mediocre writers and producers,there seems to be an ever increasing percentage of the industry that are looked at as creative giants while in reality,they are insipid and banal products of the current shallow and narrow minded American society. A good case in point for this issue lies in Jewel's mega-success back in the nineties.She does have a voice and does well with her guitar,but while I was hearing one accolade after another about how good of a writer she was,I personally actually believed she not only was not great,but was a downright TERRIBLE writer.And this continues greatly today.Theses young writers today have no artistic vision from which to formulate a song in the first place and furthermore they are hardly wordsmiths of ANY kind.Possibly worst of all,they have nothing to say and they constantly state that fact quite well in their music.Freddy Mercury was legitimate visionary.Beyonce and her squad of medocrity may be fine for a string of top tens,but overall her career seems to revolve around espousing the usual short sighted idioms of this extrememely boorish nation.But then,that's another page.................