Someday folks around here will learn that Art and Commerce are separate things. Using standards for one to judge the merit of the other is pointless.

It would be better to examine how folks who wrote this song were able to find commerical success. Their "art" in this case is obviously more about navigating the industry successfully and figuring out how to get radio airplay. Writing a great lyric is one talent. Knowing how to get a song played on the radio is a different one. If you're concern is with commercial success, then better to study how they do it and mimic that than complain that your "art" is better. If you want to create better art, then do it.. but don't expect that talent to translate to commercial success. It rarely every does.

We use this analogy all the time and it always applies. McDonalds makes generic food that isn't as good as nearly any other restaurant (or probably any other dinner being cooked in a home) on a given day. But they know how to appeal to the masses with food that is as simplistic and generic as it can be. A Master Chef probably isn't lamenting how McDonalds can make a zillion dollars a day selling a zillion hamburgers. He's making great food for what is likely a much smaller niche of consumers. Artists concerned with art over commerce should do the same. Unless you want to write McSongs and learn about how to market them, don't concern yourself with bad lyrics in a pop-country song. You'll never find an answer that will be satisfactory from the artistic view. Why do people watch Jerry Springer when they could watch the History Channel? Why do people eat McDonalds when they could have a home cooked meal at a small local restaurant that costs the same and taste better? Why do people want to listen to lame songs with bad lyrics over a well thought out, deeply written piece of art?
The answer defies logic.. but that's what people do every day on all sorts of products and choices.

Brian

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