About this user
Now that Indie music is mainstream and drenched in middle-of-the-road stadium navel-gazing and pretend-street urchin postering, perhaps Pop music is the new rock'n'roll. (It's far more credible, think of Girls Aloud - no, their MUSIC, you sleaze.) The musical boffin and repentant Rock artiste behind Starmaker thinks it is, and the fact that there is more money in it is naturally beside the point. Seeing that his own Woody Allen-meets-Oasis-who-bump-into-Noam Chomsky-who-is-having-a-pint-with-New Order offerings (at myspace.com/worldview) are proving an acquired taste, this multi-talented, single-celled bedroom maestro has now set himself the arguably greater and more worthy task of attempting to give the public what the public wants, whether they want it or not. He has painstakingly knocked out these deceptively simple Pop nuggets in a variety of well-known styles, putting them through the hitsongscience.com website just to be sure, which he now releases into the atmosphere F.A.O. all present and future pop svengali's, compilers of feelgood compilations, and airbrushed starlets of tomorrow singing into their hairbrushes while psyching themselves up for ritual humilation in front of post-modern panto villain Simon Cowell. The self-styled Starmaker may sound like he is joshing about a bit, but his perfect pop project is in DEADLY earnest. Starmaker's true identity is a closely-guarded secret; it is known only that he comes from Oxford and is not in Coldplay, but used to know someone who is. All correspondence and inquiries of a music biz nature via his close confidant, some say doppelganger, oliver@oliver-shaw.co.uk.
