Now that the notorious writers' strike has been settled and America is assured of another season's worth of carefully crafted inanity, we thought it might be a good time to start pondering the status of other scribes in the entertainment media world. Specifically: what would happen if songwriters went on strike? Would Jimmy Iovine be trolling L.A. dives in search of desperate/unscrupulous scabs to fill out the tail end of the next Gwen Stefani album? Would Metallica finally be forced to release the Neil Diamond tribute album that's been their unacknowledged destiny all along? Would the charts and airwaves be filled with a flood of new-but-inexplicably-familiar tunes like "Soak up the Sunblock, "Dessert Rose," and "SexyBackHair?" Would the proprietors of Youtube and Google lose their status as premier interactive web zillionaires to the guy who runs the the Alanis Morissette Lyric Generator? These and other questions should be food for thought as you envision the source material for the next batch of musical reality shows for which those suddenly prolific TV writers are doubtlessly cooking up celebrity-host intros right now...
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