According to Theodor W. Adorno, “the popular music industry is an all consuming production line that churns out mass produced and inferior commodities”. One can argue in favour of Adorno as there have been major traits of industrial standardization in music, i.e. most artist take songs and remake it by adding a creative twist to it in order to make it sound different. Adorno may have a point because, this type of standardization has been used over and over again in centuries. On the one hand, one can argue against Adorno theory that the popular music industry is not all consumed and mass produced but just a tradition. Most music of today is remakes of songs from past decades but people still enjoy them due to the slight changes added. We enjoy a piece of music hence the reason why we go out to buy similar piece or a piece that have similar styles or connotations.
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