Popular music is a mass produced commodity, Adorno suggests that when there is a successful song, hundreds of others spring up imitating the successful one, the first version is therefore commodified for mass production and a money making scheme. The genuine art within popular music is only applicable to the song writer as this shows a talent, being able to sing a tune or dance along while singing is not an art form. Adorno suggests that it is exploited to commercial exhaustion, culminating in 'the crystallization of standards'. The standardization of music creates the illusion of the individual, people feel invigorated by the music they listen to and see themselves as different and individual whereas they are just succumbing to the popular. People may view their own tastes in music as an artistic taste, but some people aren't to bothered if theirs is seen as art or not as long as they enjoy what they listen to.
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I am not entirely sure about your reasoning here. If singing or dancing are not genuine art forms how do you account for the status of Maria Callas or Margot Fonteyn who did exactly that and would be considered by most sober critics to have been artists.
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