User:Maajenrox

Hello! My name is Maajen! Well, actually, that is not my name as you probably guessed, but that is completely beside the point. Anyway, the purpose of this article is to reveal to you what I have been led to believe about ARK Music Factory and its... "singers..." I read the Wikipedia article about it, and I indeed feel that it had a few serious flaws in it. First, the accurate things in the article were that ARK is based in L.A. and that it was founded by Patrice Wilson. It also was accurate in saying the price that parents or "singers" must pay to sign a deal with them, between $2,000 and $4,000. There were, however, a... few inaccurate statements in the article. First of all, the article referred to the songs that these "artists" sing as "music," which in itself is totally inaccurate. The "songs" are extremely repetitive, and lyrically they are extremely unintelligent. Plus, the teen pop stars they feature in their video have no talent whatsoever. And even if they do, it's impossible to tell with so much cover from auto tuning. The songs are SO overly auto tuned that it sounds like one is listening to an electronic voice.

Another thing that was inaccurate about this article was that it didn't really address the fact that ARK is pretty much just a huge money scam. Although it had a quote from Wilson about how people say that ARK exploits rich parents and their children, look carefully at the wording in the quotation. All it says is that other companies do it ALSO, which does not, in turn, mean that they do not do it as well. And even though it says how Wilson does not say that the rich are being exploited, it says that Wilson feels that this is a relatively low price. Oh really? Then why is it that only the RICH people can afford to have their children turned into celebrities? And to make matters worse, I cease to have found one ARK "singer" who has any real talent.

Third, I just plain do not believe that ARK has worked with Miley Cyrus, the Backstreet Boys, and Ashley Tisdale. And besides, even if they have, look at where a few of those names have ended up? Famous, but ruined. I just don't understand why parents choose to expose their children to this kind of brutal environment of fame. So their children can follow their dreams now and be completely wrecked in later life?

ARK also "claims to be creating a community where artists from all fields can come together and build connections and interact." ARK is across all fields, why is it that I have only heard the single most annoying genre of all: pop? (By the way, I can't stand pop music in general.)

Perhaps the most inaccurate thing that was said in the article was "success" of the "Friday" music video. If you can consider having the most dislikes ever to appear on a YouTube video AND being able to watch a comment of profanity posted every two to three seconds a success, then "Friday" is the most successful video on the planet. However, if you consider success as people enjoying it and buying the song because it's good and not so they can show their friends how terrible it is, then "Friday" is a complete train wreck. And I am inclined to think that it is a train wreck. Sure, it's made her famous, but if you take a step back and consider the reasons why, there is nothing successful about her.

In conclusion, I feel that ARK is after money, and we should not be buying "songs" like "Friday" to support them. If you hate the video like me, just don't watch it. But I must say I do not find it in anyway appropriate that people comment profanity on her video. I just don't feel we should be supporting ARK for such a ridiculous purpose.