Is it right to suggest that the audience has become a hypodermic receiver created by the music industry and fed these mass produced popular songs into their consciousness where by they are unmediated and this vicious cycle remains unbroken. Or do we occasionally see a breakthrough where an artist or a different genre emerges to smash this 'production line'.
Adorno would agree that all popular music sounds the same and that the music industry is purely a money making machine whereby if it strikes gold, it will attempt to replicate this model in order to produce success, this is where we see what is know as templates, artists/ boy-bands/ girl-groups rerecording similar songs to previous bands who were before them (probably all under the same management.)
However some would argue the audience are free to buy what they like and that popular music is still an art form. I would have to suggest that Adornos argument is a vast generalisation. However believe that it is only when the individual artist is permitted full artistic control say over the management that original music starts being made.
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There are some interesting points made here. Perhaps a little reference to further reading may have been helpful to flesh out your argument but overall this is pretty good.
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