h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Lets get a few things clear about me, first I am quite tone deaf, I honestly can't tell if someone is singing in tune or not, also music stirs no real emotion in me as some people claim it does to them, in short music leaves me cold.
So why am I posting here? To give you my impartial opinion, despite the fact that I can't tell good singers from bad and am emotionally unaffected by music I truly hate the idea of manufactured band and their like.
Thesse bands churn out music that sound exactly the same (to others aswell as my ignorant ears) as not only their previous songs but the songs of the last band of their kind (can anyone really distinguish between Boyzone and Westlife).
However this discussion is on the future of music and I sincerly believe that these bands are fading into the background, it is easy to see this because the music industry is now bringing in bands which desperatly try to merge Pop with increasingly popular forms like Rock (Avril Lawhatsit, Busted) and Hip Hop (err.. no examples come to mind right now) they are doing this in the hope that the more impressionable fans of these forms will believe they are genuine and popularise them.
So what has got the Pop industry so scared? What has popularised 'real' music and left the manufactured bands standing? The question can be easily answered by asking wht the industry is currently scared of, that of course is the Internet. Formerly Napster and now Kazaa and others make music so widely available that people can afford to "try before they buy" thus recognising good bands and buying their music. Bands truly "in it for the music" dont care if their songs are available for free as they will still make enough money, but those desperatly mass producing bands are incredibly scared by the trend after all you can easily recognise the lack of quality online and then decide against buying it.
So cheer up the future's bright (I hope), I apologise for the long post but I'm new to this and had a lot to say, and I hope you will enjoy good music in the future even if I cannot.

personally,i think that ALL the boybands should be combined, allowed to make ONE album (for the people who actually like that stuff.. and seriously, can anyone actually tell which boyband did what song?(if you weren't watching them and even then its hard to tell)) and then never allowed near a microphone again.. (i would say musical instrument but none of them actually *play* anything!)
and as for britney spears and the likes of her.. time magazine once called the genre 'slut pop'.. i couldn't think of a better name!