well, let's look at the facts. much of the music in question is plainly:
- absolutely shameless in terms of redundancy and use of cliches either in melody, lyrics, chord progressions, instrumental arrangements and general sonic aesthetics; this is a fact, not a subjective observation. it can be shown empirically through gathering information/statistics and by comparison with other pop of the same sort. again: it is NOT some weird opinion that some pompous underground/indie dude invented. claims of redundancy, banality and creative bankruptcy are expressions of actual facts about the structure of the music itself. observable, verifyable phenomena.
- over-produced, so much so that it doesn't even qualify as great over-produced pop
If creativity really matters to a fan of music, the fact is they're not going to have any interest in the likes of Akon, Nickelback, and so on. the question of TASTE only goes so far as whether one's taste is for unoriginal innocuous uninspired pop, or for something a little more daring, risky, edgy and adventurous. Where one goes from that point on, is really down to plain fact.
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