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Meat Loaf appeared on TV One's Breakfast program on Tuesday, revealing that as a member of the Academy, he picked Avatar to win Best Picture, even though members are not supposed to reveal their votes.
The rocker is in New Zealand to promote his new album Hang Cool Teddy Bear.
He says his latest album is based on a story of a soldier who is dying and whose life doesn't flash backward but flashes forward.
Meat Loaf says he has no idea why Avatar didn't win, though he does not think The Hurt Locker was not deserving of a win as well, but believes there was something special about Cameron's movie.
"The guy worked for 12 years working on something and it was pure genius."
He blames the loss on the entertainment industry and the academy, whose members he says, just go with the flow and cannot be bothered to actually watch the film they are voting on.
"I am an academy member who watches each and every movie... that's the problem with the entertainment industry, people get lazy, well you know everyone said that (movie) was really good, I don't have time to watch it, so just let's vote that way," says Meat Loaf.
The veteran rocker also criticised those who seek fame as an end goal.
"What you hear all the time from young singers and different people, when asked: What you want to do? They say they want to become famous...and anybody will do anything."
He says Andy Warhol was wrong in stating that everyone will be seeking their 15 minutes of fame.
"Warhol was wrong... cos he was 10 minutes off; it's really five minutes now."
Meat Loaf says all the music greats became great because of their music.
"I guarantee you if you were to ask Jimi Hendrix or Joplin or Daughtry or the Beatles or any of them, it wasn't about they wanted to be famous, it was about what their art was, their music was ..and now it's all about being famous and there's no foundation, there's no anything."
The singer, who says the whole reason he got into rock and roll was for the free beer and women, did his first professional gig at Huntington Beach, California, 43 years ago, opening to Them, a band in which Van Morrison played in.
His Bat Out Of Hell trilogy stayed in the charts for nine years and has sold over 40 million copies worldwide and still sells 200,000 copies a year.
