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i assume this thread only applies to music because you're an idiot if you think mainstream entertainment outside of music has little to offer (since obviously it's borderline impossible for anything involving film/television/books to even be financed and made outside the 'mainstream' establishment).

anyway willfully distancing yourself from the zeitgeist sounds self-limiting and depressing. there's plenty of merit in enjoying mainstream music (and there is an abundance of craft to seek out and appreciate there, however cynical your idea of it) for no other reason than because your enjoyment is/can be shared by millions of others, anywhere, anytime. you don't have to consider it a form of art consumption to unironically get down to some radio jams everyone knows at a house party; for chrissake it's communal, it's fun, it has mass appeal among human beings and somehow that is taken to be a pejorative nowadays