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Gianluca -
If you're still here, then I have a challenge for you. If you genuinely think there's no skill, invention or wit involved in writing 'good' pop music, then I challenge you to turn your classically-honed powers of composition to this facile art, and write a piece of successful pop music. Once you've published and had popular successes of your own, then I'll agree with your diatribe.
I think you'll actually find that most people regard classical music as 'wallpaper', and would rather listen to pop music for its merits alone. I think that writing good pop music requires just as much skill as writing good classical music; let's not lose sight of the fact that Mozart, Schumann etc. etc. were the 'pop' artists of their day. They churned out what people wanted to hear. I seriously doubt that much of Bach's audience cared for the cunning manupulation of motives in his chorale treatments and fugues; they just liked the sound.
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