> "Popular" art which stands on its own without needing critical interpretation does more for its audience than art which requires the accompaniment of a cultur

> "Popular" art which stands on its own without needing critical interpretation does more for its audience than art which requires the accompaniment of a cultural tour guide. And audiences sense it, which is why popular art will always be popular. Miley Cyrus' "Flowers", a pop song, alludes to a Bruno Mars song "When I Was Your Man". Allusions exist all over, of many different brows. There's nothing insidious about Dante alluding to Greco-Roman poets as well as his Italian political contemporaries.