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The Myth of Authenticity in Popular Music
The myth of the authentic has produced tensions which have created some fantastic music is led to far more mediocrity and awfulness. In a 2008 piece for The Guardian reviewing the book Faking It The Great Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music The Late Writer Stephen Wells Decried to The Authenticity is a conservative illusion chased by unimaginative fools. "I do not care about like white men in t-shirts standing on stage and playing music but you know I'm very biased I hate I hate lots of music," she said.