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Old 10-14-2018, 01:03 AM   #159
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Originally Posted by Elphenor View Post
Yeah but the claim was that popularity is a measure of quality

my point is simply that popularity is completely irrelevant and no conclusions ought to be drawn from it
You have to define quality when it comes to music. Do you mean playing in time? Do you mean thinking up creative chord changes? Unique singing? Even if you answer these questions though, it really just leads to a dozen more. There's not really a such thing as quality as it applies to music. There's just this kind and that kind.

Popularity means that a large number of people wanted to consume the product, which says a lot about the product. To say that you and your subgroup are right and everyone else wrong is the definition of delusion. Of course, it's so common and accepted in our society to dismiss what many other people like out of hand, as you would Pizza Hut, that you probably don't even realize you're part of very large, very delusional mob. Mention Nickelback and huge circlejerk spontaneously erupts on the spot.

 
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