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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Here's the thing though: I think you're wrong about how much effort goes into a Britney Spears album. For one thing, something like that is undoubtedly a massive team effort involving very highly trained session musicians, producers, engineers, etc. And when it comes to Britney Spears herself, I have no doubt that she has spent vast amounts of time developing her singing voice and probably spends massive amounts of time in the studio getting the absolutely perfect end product. And yet, nevertheless, at the end of the day her albums still suck.
The point is a ton of effort doesn't make something great, and a lesser amount of effort doesn't make something bad.
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Ok, then I could say I can measure things on a combination of focused effort, and controlled creative vision. The production of a Britney Spears CD wouldn't be reliant on a controlled creative vision because of it's necessity to rely on formula, and the focused effort is split among many sources who are skilled but are trained to treat their job like factory work.
Whether it's effort or not, there are still factors that denote quality in comparing works of art.