Quote Originally Posted by Grig View Post
Also, much of what you see in the music industry/charts today isn't original material but rather stuff which is ripped off. That's why mainstream music just isn't as good nowadays.
You are right about this - there does seem to be a lot of remakes or borrowing of backing tracks and tunes, or reworded lyrics... I don't think it helps that someone found out (Bill Bailey, perhaps?) that all pop songs have the same four beats and can eventually form the same pattern and tune. But this is somewhat off topic.

I'm still in two places about Ellen, she's interesting half the time but I do find she does the right thing in a weird way, and sometimes the wrong way - but this is just a few shows I've caught a glimpse of. She's probably no better or worse than Graham Norton or any other chat show host.