Pump up the Volume

[darkship]

The best art that exists in the world was made to both reflect and provoke intense emotion. Art can be bleak and horrifying, touching, uplifting, heartbreaking, all of that great stuff. Loads of people who are better writers than I have said this thousands of times. The great thing about art, of course, is that as well as all that provoking-emotion

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[darkship]

Yeah, exactly. People shouldn't have an opinion on Bieber. It's so teenage to be bothered about what silly pop singers are doing. It bums me out that there's almost never an indie-rock Number One, of course, but it's not as though, say, the Velvet Underground ever had hits. In the long run it doesn't matter at all.

Dudes need to get a grip - it's more harmful to have wanky four-chord stodge-rock worshipped as a masterpiece than it is to have a dumb bit of fluff at Number One for a fortnight.