week3 Is popular music a mass produced commodity or a simple art form?

I will start by saying that i think popular music can be looked at as mass produced commodity and a simple art form, simply because i personally found it quite hard to say that popular music is one or the other. Theodor Adorno considers popular music to be a mass produced commodity and thats it. His theories and ideas for this is because he believes that popular music is a capitalist, something to feed the people to keep them satisfied and something that basically distracts us and takes you away from reality for a moment, which i agree with. Adorno also argues that popular music does not challenge us and that listening to it just gives us something to do. But when looking at popular music as an art form, we have to define what art is. Many people would say that art is a form of creative expression, whether that be theatre, paintings and music because its still a way for the artist to express them selves but then they could just be doing it to make money. Popular music is also open to interpretation and meaning when looked as an art form. So I guess popular music can be looked at as both a commodity and an art form depending on how you look at it but i agree with Adorno's theory.