I will reply to otehr comments later, the words are currently jumping to my eyes making it hard to read and especially understand what I read. It ain't good to be awake over 24 hours without sleeping...
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Originally Posted by fable  Something can be terrible, even if a great many people like it. ABBA, anyone? Reality tv? Or are you a big supporter of TV evangelists, Fox News, and Silvio Berlusconi?  |
In case of ABBA, is that your personal opinion or is there some larger support in that? In my opinion ABBA made very good music, and they even sold very well, at least in Sweden and in Finland. I don't have any more specific info about their sellings at hands, but I try to find some later. Also, at least here in Finland ABBA has been considered (and as far as I know still is) frontal figure of the music of it's style and era.
And while talking about music, you could as well say that new Nightwish is terrible, or many, many other band.
And about Reality tv...
Well, I'm not fan of those examples you threw in, but there are many Reality tv shows I actually enjoy watching, and I know many who also do so. And can Reality tv in whole be terrible if it as a category contains numerous formats that gets almost whole country hooked to it year after year?
Happened here with several formats, like Idols, Big Brother (which I personally dislike, but that's my opinion), several contest-style shows and so on...