Is popular music a mass commodity or a genuine art form?

Popular music is a genuine art form because the amount of skill behind creating a piece of music is more complex than what people think. Art itself can be anything if you can justify why you call it art with artistic and creative reasons and popular music is creative and for it to be popular there must be a level of creativity put into its production for it to be so popular. Adorno was a Marxist and he argues that its baseless entertainment which stops us from realising how much control the ruling class have over our lives. Art is complex and requires skill not just in its creation but from the listener to interpret the message but popular music doesn’t carry this trait. It isn’t a commodity as it’s not consumed in the same way as chocolate you wouldn’t by the same version of Silent night by every artist that sings it you would buy your favourite version.