Has art jumped the shark after WWI?

[Alex K]

Sorry his is in german, abaris, what do you think about this stuffy gentleman's argument that classical music has an objectively more developed artistic language than pop?

Does it? I'm a musical illiterate, but I find it telling he's always going on about Britney Spears. He obviously never really appreciated the arrangements of Beatles songs and the musical complexity of Abba, regardless if you like them or not.

Yes, it's a bit embarrassing for a music critic to have such a narrow sense of music.

But that's not the point, he's making the usual mistake of talking from the usual elitist position. I am the one determining what's good music and to use his own words, stupider music. It's also an objective mistake, since pop musicians have to use the language of music. They also build on the long tradition of musicians coming before them.