Whats The Best Type Of Music?

[jrgen]

Here, you're taking what I said out of context and re-applying it. However, reapplied, you are correct. The most popular and most powerful art form is superior.
In case you didn't hear, Usher makes some 200 million bucks at certain concerts (Or is it over the course of the year???)
In any event, his music is pop/rap and lo! He is more successful. So yes, his music is superior over the masses. And if he had a different composer, then his music would be "not-superior." Because the perfrmance only does one part.

His music is commercially superior, but that doesn't make it superior in all the other areas.
When it comes to music it really hurts me to see what money can do to it.
The bands create the kind of music that the biggest amount of people like,
and what the people like is decided by MTV.
The problem with this is that in the world of today,
what you need to be successfull hasn't got really much to do with the music itself.

There are IMO more to music then popularity.
There are other elements that are very important to me,
like inovativity, originality and how the music actually sounds.
And these things are getting destroyed by popularity.

If a person composes a song in the 80s,
but makes it a single today and it becomes a huge hit.
Was it a good song before it released as a single, when no one knew about it?

You can't judge how good music is by looking at the sales,
becuase the consumers today are really limited to what's shown on TV and aired on the radio,
which is nothing but a really small part of the whole world of music.

Btw, I read your post perfectly well.
I didn't say Mozart's music didn't stimulate your brain in a positive way.
All I said that you'll have to consider whether or not brain stimulation is a part of the definition of "good" music.
A definition which shouldn't exist in the first place.