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Why, Taylor Swift and Nicky Minaj which you don't need any education to enjoy, is so much better than Mahler or even Bach.


I sort of assume any classical musician I’ve ever heard of would be regarded by somebody like Adorno as popular tripe.

I dunno. I don’t like either of those artists, Swift or Minaj, but I’m sure they’ve brought a lot of joy into people’s lives. By what metric can we call them not good? Happiness provided? They score quite well. Some kind of complexity? Sure, not great… but if we pick that metric the high scores list will presumably be dominated by nonsense jazz inspired electronics artists with super fast drum machines, or something like that.




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