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Cmv: 'Classical music' and the arguments that older music is 'better than today's trash' are problematic

I often see arguments that 'classical music is better than shallow pop songs'. I think this is over-generalising things.

For one, when people mention the word classical music they mean long, drawn out orchestral music created by the highest acclaimed composers of an older age. It is unfair to compare these undeniably more complex forms of music to simple songs with lyrics. They are different mediums of music making.

Consider that even during the times of so called classical music most people were also more familiar with simple songs. Beethoven symphonies were not always the most common form of entertainment. Rather, it was more likely people learned songs that were created by song writers similar to modern pop songs.

Basically songs are the most common type of music generally speaking in terms of a music intended for entertainment and not for religious, political, or military uses. It is so even during mozarts time.

The so called classical music people like to venerate is infact a modern construct. It is a conglomeration of all the best most complex music created that withstood time. It is not necessarily the kind of music listened to by the masses in older eras.
gpt
But why is it unfair to compare them? For example you can have a preference between apples and oranges. They are different fruit (hence the saying), buy you can also say "I think apples taste better than oranges" as well.