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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Because it's your opinion and of course, you're entitled to it. But that doesn't mean that opinion will be shared by the masses.
There have been hundreds of hit songs and one hit wonders that I have no attachment to whatsoever emotionally, but I can understand and appreciate why others may have that attachment. And there are plenty of records and bands that I love that no one gets. It's the way it goes. Music speaks to each of us differently.
What's relevant to you is apparently a little different than what it's relevant to, for lack of a better term, "the mainstream". And it's far more likely that "mainstream" music will have more longevity and more public uses due to the fact that it's popular and "mainstream".
More people have the shared experience of "mainstream" music than underground music, which will always make "mainstream" music more important and relevant in film, television and advertising.
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That's the way with everything. Millions of people think that the Transformers movies are great. These people have never seen films by Renoir, Ozu, Kurosawa, etc. That doesn't stop those great, relatively unseen films from being great.
Again, I'm not disagreeing with you about this past decade's music's lasting popular legacy. I'm will disagree with you until the ends of the Earth, until we chew and gnash each other to death, that there isn't some really good and even great music being made now.