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Someone did the same with Nickelback (or some other similar crappy band) a few years ago.

Ah-ha! Google found it for me:

http://www.thewebshite.net/nickelback.htm

what are you talking about?

nicklecrap is justin timberlake-esque crap. Cheap, and mass produced with no talent.

The singer just screams, and all the songs have the same or similar beat.

Here, in case you've had your head under the sand.

http://www.thewebshite.net/nickelback.htm

I think you're right that RIAA endorsed labels do have many respectable bands signed, unfortunately. However - and I don't mean to insult your taste here - You should be aware that Nickelback is almost certainly the kind of [RIAA crap] band that the grandparent was talking about. Many people regard them as total sellouts and possessive to no actual talent or creativity, at least in the circles in which I run. There was the Digg story a while back that pointed to this interesting site: evidence of similarities between Nickelback songs. Regardless of whether you like them or not, they are a hit generator, which is exactly the kind of thing that they play on pop/rock radio. Anyway keep up the good analysis; just use better examples like Radiohead (which you also used). They are distributing In Rainbows under a label associated with the RIAA according to RIAA Radar.

It's too late! Nickelback has already done this!

Nickelback sucks. How did you include an RIAA radio-friendly band with a homogenistic sound that flows through each and every song, so much so that you can have two different Nickelback songs on your right and left audio channels and not notice the difference?

Have at thee!

Many music files, for instance, may differ only in the artist-and-title headers, but are otherwise 99 percent similar.

One particular film/song is successful so they just clone it and flog the same formula to death because they have no imagination whatsoever.

Ah yes, kind of like this. The tracks not just similar, they're frighteningly similar, and very obviously a paint by numbers forumla effort.

Jedidiah.

It's because all pop music sounds exactly the same these days. From the perspective of a search engine, it *IS* all just songs from Britney Spears.

That would explain this: http://www.thewebshite.net/nickelback.htm

Nickelback must be using AI to write their songs

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