jesus fucking christ, this guy is a fucking liability to this paper, to this fucking city, and to fucking real art, music, culture and anyone that takes any of those things seriously. we cannot afford these god awful thoughts and ideas to be proliferated any longer! someone smother him while he sleeps as soon as fucking possible!

I do all of those things from your intro paragraph and still get really into the Grammies. People aren't all stereotypes who love one sort of music over another, you know?

I find it ridiculous how people assume that if you read trashy magazines you don't also read great books, or if you watch TV you don't also have interesting hobbies. It's snobby and makes the critic sound boring and one-note.

I love Lil Wayne and Beyonce and Taylor Swift and American Idol, and I also love 60s French pop, jazz, garage, psych, freak folk and brit pop, indie, etc... I'm just a fan of really well-crafted songs and spectacles and performances that are big productions. I think there are plenty of people who just genuinely love music enough to be excited about multiple genres, including mainstream pop.