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And just becomes something is popular doesn't mean it's bad. If TITO was to somehow blow up and become a #1 hit on all the charts, that wouldn't demean the quality of the work as is. Whether you like a piece of music or not should have nothing to do with its level of popularity. I have friends who won't, on principle, listen to anything that MTV wouldn't play and I have friends who won't listen to anything MTV does play: both groups are just as judgmental and limited in taste as a result.

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I don't think Lady GaGa the person is, but I think she's diluted her message for mass consumption. Her theatrics are forced and lack an integral kind of conviction, in my opinion. She's never convinced me to believe her, only to watch her. But I'll leave it at that. This isn't a GaGa hate thread. I was just using her as an example of what sells now and won't sell in a decade. I could have used Miley Cyrus just as easily. She's already washed up and she's barely twenty.