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Why do we let non-musicians critique pop music?
Seriously. There's no way in hell that someone without any musical expertise would be allowed to review an opera for a respectable news organization. 50 years after the Beatles and others showed us the towering artistic heights possible in popular music, we still treat pop music criticism as if it were no more than the mindless fluff haters ...
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thesuperweasel
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January 24, 2009