The Human League star Phil Oakey has admitted that modern music is more of a corporate experiment than an artistic expression and used Bajan sensation Rihanna as the example for his claim.

He believes that this generation's "popstars" are nothing more than business models helped out by behind-the-scenes teams and digital vocal enhancements:

"We could have been eclipsed by new waves of acts who had established their own huge back catalogues but the music industry doesn't make popstars any more. Especially popstars from Britain."

Referring to the 'Where Have You Been' superstar, Oakey explained that he enjoys the music she releases but there's no artistic integrity as a lot of the modern singers don't write their own songs:

"A lot of the people making it now aren't super brilliant singers. It seems to be a big corporate thing. I like Rihanna, a lot of her records are pretty exciting, but it's a result of a huge team - songwriters, producers, publicists - and the act is sort of a figurehead."

"I'm old enough to have been thrilled when The Beatles and Bob Dylan came through and could explain what they meant by certain lyrics. There's no point asking some new acts because they haven't written their songs."