as far as this thread goes...
i think it is unfair that the blame goes to MYMP. hehehe.
In fairness to them... way before they were able to grace the airwaves of your local music video channels,they were really known because of their cover songs / own rendition of some 80's songs,which evidently zoomed them up the charts...
my point? there are many factors. and i am sure we all know those things and again, it is not a sin to cover songs. it's been there and will be there until we count to the 11th hour of mankind.
Children of Bodom covers Oops i did it again by Britney Spears.
although i do understand that it does suck that most of the songs you hear on local mainstream media are cover songs... thing is that there are many original songs that it is waiting to sweep the musical sense out of you. It does not need to be mainstream to be good. right?