It is hard to define what is 'art' or 'popular music' but i feel that music has become a mass produced commodity, holding little credibility. Reading Adornos theory i agree with his interchangeability and pseudo individualisation theories that portray the sense of repetitiveness and copying in this day and age of music. I think for something to be an art form is to be unique and created by ones own knowledge and talent; a lot of popular music of today just follows the same formats and themes. It does accentuate similarity, and does churn out songs in order to gain money and not credibility for musical creativeness. I think that this is more related to the last 10-15 years of music, which could be due to the fact that everything has been done already, and there's nothing new to think of,forcing us to maybe unconsciously mimic music we already know. I think that money has tarnished the music industry of today as it is no longer about musical talent but more about image and selling.
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This is a reasonable answer, and in some ways I would agree that some of Adorno's criticisms of earlier popular music has been true of some of the music of the last 10-15 years. However, the idea that popular music is sold by the generation and perpetuation of image is as old as popular music itself.
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