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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Okay. Now imagine if you will that One Direction continues being popular for the next 15 years—no increase in quality or anything, they just continue to be popular. Would you at that point decide that they're somehow good? If people told you that they were influential, would you suddenly regard them as worthwhile?
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I don't see it being the case. The whole idea behind being influential is that you were groundbreaking in some respect, that you did something new that a lot of artists hoped to emulate. It's like saying The Hives were influential to a bunch of post-punk revival bands when all they did was emulate bands that came before them.
I think it kind of is an antithesis to the whole bottom line behind being influential.