OH, LIGHTEN UP FOR GODS SAKE!

Until now i have been able to avoid the sort of 'moody' shoe gazing music that is so beloved of some people, before it was easy because you never heard much of it on the TV or the radio that someone always brought to work with them (and put you through a daily torture regime of the radio one charts) because most of them were of the JESUS AND MARY CHAIN style and were not what the radio controllers wanted during the lunchtime slot, although occasionally a 'pop oriented' band of moaners like THE SMITHS got through, and that was bad enough, and we also had the "I'm gunna paint my room black and get depressed and smash up my hamster cage" angst of RADIOHEAD, but apart from those bands and the odd surprise hit, that was it for the general public.
But today i saw an advert on TV for a floppy haired singer who was gazing moodily at the floor as he walked reflectively along the waterfront singing his new single from his new album.
Who is this moany fucker? i thought, but i was so busy disliking it i forgot to see who it was, all i knew was it was a semi acoustic ballad of deep emotion, a heap of shit in other words.
Now everyone with a guitar thinks they can write a song about 'feelings of tortured emotion and angst and how no-one understanding them while they weep for love unfound' is writing a 'heart tearing' ballad, and its not the usual suspects doing all the hand wringing, no instead of black clothed floppy fringed types we are getting fresh faced young men and women in nice clothes and acoustic guitars.
The people doing the 'angst ridden' teeth gnashing are no longer the 'artists' of the pop world, it is now a style of its own taken up by the young 'pop kings and queens'!
I have lost count of how many people are making plodding songs with sparse strumming (because the guitar is to make the 'star' more intelligent, just a prop!) and voices that cry out the pain that humanity has felt at the hands of war and bad vibes for thousands of years etc.
Or the heartache of losing a loved one is sung as if they have just watched their own mum's forced through a sausage machine, all cries of woe and broken hearts.
But honestly, who are they fooling? (lots judging by their sales!), have people not noticed that there is so many records that sound the same that there is a formula at work? one that has been made to screw the maximum profits out of people before they turn on to something different, one that will also soon be formalised just as the 'angst' angle was. i just wonder what is next? more love songs? "love songs? always a winner with the public"- Mr record exec.