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<blockquote data-quote="rentré" data-source="post: 86125" data-attributes="member: 306">And who are those evil people pulling the strings and designing soul-entrapping soundscapes?I would understand the point if you tried to approach it &quot;as an art critic&quot; and included jazz (drugging the minds for over 100 years), groovy rock and rock-n-roll, or electronic music. But singling out 2000s pop music? Why?American recording business has a habit of picking the winning horses and majority of those songs were written by musicians from Sweden (born and raised), Americans try as they can but release subpar product.Most hit-songs by Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Katty Perry and whatever, all have some hairy guitar-playing dude from Scandinavia participating in one way or another, it&#039;s all listed in the credits on Wikipedia page about any particular song, Max Martin and Shellback being the lead characters.Late 2000s hit-songs are a genuine musical product, then came drugged blacks and not so different caucasian imitators and I don&#039;t understand anything about it. The appeal is perhaps mostly stylistic.There&#039;s popular culture and there&#039;s elite culture, and sometimes you don&#039;t know where to draw the line. Theatre was mostly a low-brow genre in Britain until the late 19th century, whereas it was certainly not so in Continental Europe. Here&#039;s a joke: &quot;A German walks into a theatre in London. Was ist DAS?!&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rentré, post: 86125, member: 306"] And who are those evil people pulling the strings and designing soul-entrapping soundscapes? I would understand the point if you tried to approach it "as an art critic" and included jazz (drugging the minds for over 100 years), groovy rock and rock-n-roll, or electronic music. But singling out 2000s pop music? Why? American recording business has a habit of picking the winning horses and majority of those songs were written by musicians from Sweden (born and raised), Americans try as they can but release subpar product. Most hit-songs by Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Katty Perry and whatever, all have some hairy guitar-playing dude from Scandinavia participating in one way or another, it's all listed in the credits on Wikipedia page about any particular song, Max Martin and Shellback being the lead characters. Late 2000s hit-songs are a genuine musical product, [I]then[/I] came drugged blacks and not so different caucasian imitators and I don't understand anything about it. The appeal is perhaps mostly stylistic. There's popular culture and there's elite culture, and sometimes you don't know where to draw the line. Theatre was mostly a low-brow genre in Britain until the late 19th century, whereas it was certainly not so in Continental Europe. Here's a joke: "A German walks into a theatre in London. Was ist DAS?!". [/QUOTE]

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