So who's seen the Disney Jonas Brother's episode of Southpark. If you haven't, it was on last night and it was AWESOME. Of course it's satire and there's a lot of the stupid kind of comedy in it and tons of exaggerations about the way the music business operates, but the general concept is clear. The episode focuses on the way the music industry controls the artists and forces them to do what's profitable for the company rather than what the artists want to create. The music in this episode is used to make a couple of points. First, that the Jonas Brothers and other disney artists sound ridiculous, and secondly that the big fish in the industry such as Disney and others aren't concerned about producing good quality music, just music that they can convince people is good enough to buy so that they can make as much money as possible. I loved the episode because of the humor, but the music is the driving force behind the episode and that's why I think the music was important to the show.