Reply #65: What you have here on DU is...

[wyldwolf]

.. a certain element who are culture elitists, or, music snobs.

Peter Bart, Daily Variety Editor-in-Chief, nailed these types of people recently in an article on year-end movies. His reasoning can just as easily be applied to music. He states that film (music) critics (fans] fall into a couple of different schools:

1. The "pop culture is yucky" school. Elitist by nature, critics (fans) find it positively unbearable to endorse any movie {music) that has found acceptance from the mass audience. If the great unwashed liked it, could it be any goddamn good?

2. The obscurantist school. Since every filmgoer {music fan) is convinced he's an expert, their best defense is to cozy up to movies (and music) no one else has ever likely seen or heard or , indeed, ever heard of. There's no way to contradict someone if his favorites are really obscure.

In the case of Laura Branigan, a talented performer with a powerful voice, Radicalliberal has also taken on the role of "expert in music theory" to discredit her though he won't apply the same standard to those I consider turkeys in his own list of "talented" singers.