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Death to intellectuals! Art is not worth analyzing! Let the free market decide everything!
Bravo - you are the perfect Republican consumerist dupe.
It is nice that there are snarky dopes whose whole lives revolve around dissecting the minutiae of every true musical 'artiste' who is supposedly misunderstood and ignored by the music buying public. But some of us have REAL LIVES. We like to pop in some decent sounding music that sounds nice to us and that does not sound self indulgent or way too clever for its own good.
MUSIC WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT THE SOUND. Music is supposed to be about enjoyment.
It is like with every field. One can be decent about it, enjoy it, then walk away and do something else.
But there always has to be a fringe element that ruins it for everyone by overanalyzing every last poopie being excreted by some obscure nobody who they swear is the Second Coming. Like the whole Bob Dylan cult for instance...
