Yeah but compared with Madonna and Britney, I think these girls were like bubble gum. But I see what you're saying. However, it's becoming much worse now and some of the pop videos now are akin almost to soft porn (as you stated earlier). It's an affliction, rather than a joy. The music industry is pretty much a sick joke these days. Yes, Pwcca is right it's just about the money. Greed reigns.

But that take a look at much of the TV programmes It's not alot better. Low on quality and high on garbage alot of it, or perhaps New Zealand just get the dregs of it and there is better stuff out there that we're not getting. It really is bad. Even some of our home-grown shows are embarrassing. The kind you hope nobody gets to see overseas.

This is why parents have to start taking stronger roles for the sake of their kids. I don't mean wrapping the child in cotton wool or putting them in a bubble, because that isn't going to prepare them for what's out there. But geesh, let them have the chance to be kids and enjoy "some" of their innocence. My neice and nephew are children of these times and I try my best I guess to shield them from the worst of it when I'm around them, but I can't do it all. I am also very clear to them about it, without being graphic.