Contributed by elgato1019_1:
Entertainment Weekly has made a few New Years resolutions of its own for the music biz. They consist of: “We’ll get our vision checked, since we’ve spent the last few years straining to read the way-way-teeny print in CD booklets… We won’t laugh too derisively when Britney Spears inevitably makes herself over as a Pink-influenced ‘rocker.’… We will lay off easy targets like aging boy-band members and focus our attention on worthier objects to ridicule: the forthcoming albums by all those ‘American Idol’ finalists… We’ll give Shakira the benefit of the doubt that she has something legit to offer and isn’t simply the most careerist belly dancer the world has known… We won’t spend any more time wondering why 12 people are credited with writing Jennifer Lopez’s ‘Jenny From the Block.’ (Was rhyming ‘told ya’ and ‘Oprah’ so hard?)… We also won’t make cruel, insensitive jokes about her gushy ‘Dear Ben’ should their marriage plans not pan out. On second thought…”