As someone who doesn't feel a particular attachment to popular culture (I don't hate pop music, I love a good hook, but I don't always find popularity to be a g

As someone who doesn't feel a particular attachment to popular culture (I don't hate pop music, I love a good hook, but I don't always find popularity to be a good signal for anything) articles like this are strange to me. In some ways, I think popularity in art is a signal of mediocrity. I like the Beatles fine, and sure I see the genius, but the music is also very inoffensive. But yeah, like many have said. New 'Classical' music just isn't going to find an audience. It's either too polarizing or not for the 'kids these days' But with the overwhelming quantity of music available, niche music is great. I love Steve Reich, I imagine my dad would hate it. It's also an amusing trope in depictions of brooding artists that popularity cheapens a work. I guess I just think social acceptance or virality is a weird measure of the quality of a work, even though in some ways it's all we have.