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I feel like the Pop Music genre sucks the soul out of all sub genres
when rock and roll broke there was a lot of quality music that was also successful commercially
as that genre became consumed by the Pop Music blob, we ended up with soft rock, yacht rock, glam rock, etc...
continue the analogy and add elements from hip-hop and R&B being consumed by the same Pop Music blob
and we end up where we are today
I feel like you could take the original post, and replace every reference to B with the words Pop Music, and you wouldn't be altering it's meaning
"How cynical and lazy we have become! How complacent! We have lionized pop music, even when pop music is trying (and pop music tries), cannot make you feel a thing about anything. Why has pop music's greatness become an assumption? A ubiquitous assumption, at that? Why, when Barack needed someone to sing at his inauguration, did he default to a pop music artist who, in 50 years, when the Ant Overlords dissect our "culture," will be dismissed as an example of how to effectively market blandness, perfect hair, and enticing thighs to the masses? Why have we just accepted pop music as something good, something to be admired, something worth celebrating? Has pop music ever made anyone cry? Does pop music raise goose bumps? Or do we just appreciate pop music, the same way we appreciate the terra cotta soldiers or El Greco? Yes, it's impressive pop music can do that, but when all is said and done, all you have is a bunch of pretty shit jammed together in one space. Over the past 10 years, I have had dozens of conversations about pop music with people who are much smarter than me. I have yet to meet anyone who has any strong opinion about pop music. Sure, a lot of people say they love pop music but only out of a sense of duty, almost as if admitting to not liking pop music would cast them as soulless neophytes who, by extension, also hate Barack Obama, Aretha Franklin, Ma Rainey, and Muhammad Ali.
I don't buy into any of that. I refuse to accept pop music. I watch singing competitions because I believe that life can be better than pop music"
I just find it unfair to direct all of the criticism toward one person
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