Youre right, but this isnt me reversing course, its me saying: you are using “pop music” with a different definition from the person you are responding too
Pop-music per your definition is a genre or set of genres. Pop-music per the definition presented though is any successfully commercialized music that by association with the label of that commercialized genre perpetuates further commercialization. Metallica, and thus metal that follows them falls into this category.
Our time isnt worth less than yours. Spend your own time answering basic questions.
Pretty sure this is a word use issue. Metal IS pop music, in that it is closely tied to mainstream commercial endeavors.
The GENRE pop music is basically a nonsense term. Its not one thing, its dozens, and metal is a counter response to many of those things.
Yes, you can lump a whole ton of stuff together and make categorical statements about it, even when it shouldn’t make sense.
Rap is pop? Yep! And nope! Country is pop? Yep! And nope! Metal is pop? Yep! And nope!
So yes, Metallica as people may (have once) been a part of the ethos that spawned metal and its signifiers, they are absolutely pop stars.
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Why not both? I really like the idea of a well fitted mask to turn flocks into birdhouses
In each of us, not two, but three. Paraphrasing Superfast matt, “that was done by past baahb, and he’s an idiot, but it matters more to future baahb, and that guy is an asshole.”
Fair. I personally prefer to tell people to atop being lazy.