In some aspects he is right you must give the boybands always work, what they do if not: they f*uck around and take drugs not so good for business!
Sure ADELE is an exception, she writes her own music and he pointed that out, but with baby or not she should do what she is best at it, to write music and sing, good for her, good for the family, good for the business.
Some on this thread laugh at Louis and he is a funny guy on X-factor, but don't forget behind most of the artist success story is a strong manager/producer involved.
Look at the beginning of Whitney's career without Clive Davis unthinkable (he also launched Alicia Keys career in the beginning).
Look what happened with Britney after her first manager left.
If I were the manager of Xtina and she came with Lotus to me, I would have said "Xtina that's a fine record but that's not enough you give me now 500.000$ and I hire Rick Rubin an he plays the record new with his musicians in Shangri-La".
here is an interesting read about Clive Davis
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.p...without-clive/