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The Consequences of Pop Music
According to Adorno, people enjoy music in the most unsophisticated way possible. Popular music also has this feature for Adorno of creating pseudo-individualism. All pop music is verse chorus verse. The chorus is the same every time. It has a completely regular and repetitive rhythm. Everything is composed in one octave. You can just predict what will come next once you've heard enough of it.