The one ray of hope in the image and marketing business that has latched onto the music/entertainment industry is their neccessity to move on to the next new thing.
I find it hard to believe that the trend could lean too much further towards sex without someone actually performing live sex acts while belting out their new release. (sounds like it belongs on the "double entendre thread")
As Jerry said earlier, kids are regarded as "sales units", that certainly wasn't true of my generation, unless you count cap guns and penny chews as big business, but nowadays the brand leaders know that the way into the parents wallets and purses is through the kids. They know all too well the difficulties of saying no to a child brought up in a society that imprints brand names into infant minds.
I just hope the next "thing" the market "invents" doesn't depend on children of 5 to act like 25year-olds.