Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

I agree with you completely, Vanilla, that there is no such thing as "good" or "bad" art in any of its forms (music, visual, written). Whether people like an artwork is determined by their own values and criteria. One reason I like art is that measures of its worth are subjective. Lady Gaga definitely seems to inspire very different reactions in people. If money and fame are used as criteria for judging the worth of her music, then I would say her art definitely has value.

What interests me...using Leona Lewis as an example, since people are writing about her above...is how people sometimes seem to jump from feeling someone's music is idiotic to feeling that the creator of the music is an idiot. They seem to leap from feeling that not only art is "good" or "bad," but also people are "good" or "bad."