| If you are referring to me, then you have misapprehended almost everything I said. And I suspect a good part of what Chromey was trying to convey. What you think G&S is or isn't is irrelevant to this discussion. The point is that, in addition to my now well-known in these parts great-grandmother, there were plenty of people (if you are unfamiliar the criticism is easy enough to find) who looked down their nose at the "trash" they were putting out, much as you do with Cardi B. FWIW I never said what I thought of WAP (that's irrelevant to this discussion as well), but your use of the word "worse" betrays the fault in everything you have written here. Art is not better or worse; it is different. You personally can like or dislike anything (also irrelevant), but you cannot impose that "taste" on everyone, least of all a generation as to which you are a spectator. The wonderful thing about art is that it evolves, so every generation falls in love with something that doesn't sit very comfortably with its predecessors. (Incidentally, that's precisely what we want art to do.) Some things endure; most things don't. Closed-mindedness never goes out of style. |
