Music App showing artists that aren't really on my phone

I updated to IOS 7 (unfortunately) and now my music app lists a single track from several artists that I've never had on my phone or even had on my computer or cloud. When clicking on the song, it just gives me the option to download it from the cloud (which I don't even use and have never used or saved any music to).
Is this just Apples new bogus way to basically advertise within one of their own apps, or does anyone know how I can turn this off? I want to go into my music app and only see the songs which I loaded onto my phone, not a random mix of songs that apple recommend!!! I listen to rock, alternative, and folk music and it is showing Mandy Moore for Christs sake!!
How do I make it stop?!?!

I want as many songs as will safely fit on my phone without interfering with phone operation.   So I have a smart playlist that selects 6 GB of songs randomly - and once per month I delete all of the songs from a dumb playlist that is synced with my iPhone and copy these into it.    By hand.    On a device that is more powerful than mainframes I worked with in the 1960s.    I do the same thing with my iPad, only with a much bigger song list (and far more apps).    I haven't done that procedure you mention above in maybe a year, but in the past it only had limited success in removing "other".   Some "other" is used by apps.   I am too cheap to have my songs on the Cloud using up bandwidth every time I want to play them.
Still - when I delete an app that doesn't get installed due to space limitations - if it won't delete, that's a bug (a bug that has been around for years).   And I'd like to find an easier way to get around that bug.

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