Interesting:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/01/hln.hot.hit.alexi.murdoch/index.html

(CNN) -- Too often, once musicians sign the dotted line, their music is
usually sent down a production line to be tweaked, remixed and injected
with additives and preservatives, and packed and delivered. Once it
arrives in stores, its lifeblood has been sucked dry, to the point it
somehow sounds like everything else, even though MTV loudly proclaims
it's "Spanking New.