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For the listener—for those three minutes and 30 seconds of pop bliss—they are in that world, where those feelings [power, danger, passion, love] are real. Those feeling are ample justification for the appreciation, even the loving, of pop music. … Pop stars may not be visionary, may not even be artists, but they are skilled craftsmen and their product is undeniably an impressive one.

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It shouldn’t be that there is such a huge divide between classical music and pop music, or that classical music is smarter than pop music. Classical music used to be pop music.