When we enjoy music for its own merits – and not because it’s associated with a famous person – it’s genuine.
When we enjoy music because we think we SHOULD be enjoying it as it’s by some famous person – that’s hype, and we do great injustice to a huge number of very talented lesser-known musicians.
Just because some music is composed by a famous person doesn’t make it great automatically – listen to it and then decide independently of the artist’s previous releases.
Many famous names are one-hit wonders, and don’t consistently come up with good music – especially in these times of ‘Singles’. Most of the songs on their albums are ‘fillers’ – they’re there only to fill-up the space on the album.
In the days when albums were important, one would come across several musicians who consistently came up with great work. Almost none of their songs were fillers. There are few artists like that today – and they’re the great musicians.
