[mpking]

You'd be surprised how truly talented some of the teeny-boppers really are.

Nsync really can sing, i've heard them sing acapella (another genera of music I really enjoy, yet didn't seem to fit very well in a competition playlist, but for your napster junkies, lookup Rockapella's rendition of Dave Matthew's Band Satellite, and keep in mind it's all human voices, no instruments), and they really have range, stlye, and rhytm.

Christina Aguilera really has range and talent I could not believe the sheer power of her voice, for the size of here, she's like 99 pounds.

Another good example, One of the singers from Eve's Crush (the new made for TV girl Band) was a band member of Day's of the New on the orginal record, before the lead singer broke it up.

Their popular songs may be written by song writers, but they do write there own material. (Some of KISS's songs were written by Michael Bolton!, and not all of Aerosmith's songs were thiers)

Back to the point, which is that these people are popular because of multi-million dollar marketing campaigns, but they still have to have large amounts of talent.