[henkster]

What’s the difference between Mozart and Drake, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Kanye West?

Mozart had talent. I guarantee that 200 yeara after the other four are dead, no one will be listening to their “music.”

[NorthMountain]

What’s the difference between Mozart and Drake, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Kanye West?

100 years from now, people will be listening to Mozart. Performing Mozart. Studying Mozart.

The others?

< snort >

Yeah. Right.

[discostu]

The day talent has anything to do with sales all the record company exec will take massive pay cuts because anybody could do their job then. No the real news here is 1.25 million sales wins the year, that’s basically nothing. That’s single platinum, that shouldn’t even be top 20 on the year. Of course last year nobody went platinum, this is a collapsed market.

[brucedickinson]

in 10 years, no one will remember kanye or beyonce

[Da Coyote]

The background noise in those Mozart discs is far better music than anything coming out of that.....er....thing.

[Red Badger]

[Sam Gamgee]

You hit the nail. Mozart created music. Not sure what to call what Beyonce creates.

[ek_hornbeck]

What’s the difference between Mozart and Drake, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Kanye West? Mozart had talent. I guarantee that 200 yeara after the other four are dead, no one will be listening to their “music.”

The difference between Mozart and the top of the pop charts today is the same as the difference between Shakespeare and the pulp novels that line grocery store aisles. The first has enduring value, the second list is of flavors of the month, destined to be forgotten and replaced by another flavor of the month when the fresh new car smell fades and marketing committees move on to their next gimmick.