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Nice insight, James!
certainly the music industry does a fine job of pushing complete crap by soulless hacks all the way to the top of the charts, but that doesn't exclude the opposite from being true as well.
Sometimes talent and quality rise to the top and gain mass popularity on their own merits: It's good, so lots of people like it. That seems reasonable. Whereas the opposite, "this music has a limited audience, therefore it must be good," doesn't always ring so true.
Wouldn't it be interesting to apply this "elitist" theory to literature, given that many classics still outsell contemporary works. (Most book-sales lists exclude classics from their rankings).
I can't say that I don't sympathize a bit with Goodwin, however. For example, I hate Lance Armstrong. His success and popularity turned a small-time but beautifully bohemian-dominated sport like cycling (in the U.S. anyways) into a horde of clueless weekend warriors and egomaniacs.
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