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Re:The Musical Diversity of Pop Songs by 21 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @12:33PM (#17220330)
That's like saying that people are eating bananas and oranges and apples because there is a huge PR campaign to push them, and that this is destroying the chances for less popular fruits.

Sure, there is that, but let's not kid ourselves, those fruit are popular because they are actually preferred by a vast majority.

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Re:The Musical Diversity of Pop Songs by njharman on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:11PM (#17223347)
Bananas are a created product. Made popular by banana industry. Natural bananas are nothing like the highly breed thing you eat. They are not native in northern America. The demand for them was manufactured with marketing. Until now they are "part of our life" and seem normal.

If it was not for the music industry. Pop bands would not exist. Boy bands would not exist. Etc. They are as artificil as bananas.

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Re:The Musical Diversity of Pop Songs by fartcannon on Sunday June 03, 2018 @03:27PM (#17221250)
Sure, but what if we only prefer it because we grew up eating it? Chicken/egg/chicken.
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