week 3: Is popular music a mass produced commodity or genuine art form?

When disusing this topic in class, we looked at what the definition of art is first. We came up with expression and creation. Adorno disagrees with Theodor that popular music is an art form, as it is simplified. As when listening to popular songs most of the time they’re cut out from an original song to make a new song, when we hear the song from an audience perspective it sounds familiar to us. I personally agree slightly with Adorno that popular music is not art form, if it’s been cut from an original piece and reused. As its not being creative, where as music that is created from scratch is more the creator thoughts and expression, which I would class as more of an art from. At the same time it depends on whether the artist uses the original parts of the song creatively than just putting it in. I don’t agree with Adorno when he says that classical music is an art form, because other genres of music can be classed as an art form as well for example Michael Jackson song ‘Thriller’ is art.