But it won't last forever. It can't. His fame and popularity are already dwindling, and even if he continues to have the power to publish whatever the fuck he likes into his sixties, in the long run nobody's going to remember him, just as nobody's going to remember other popular mediocrities like Terry BadCruel.
It's been 232 years since Mozart died, and we still love and honour him and his musical legacy. Does that mean every composer working in the 1700s was just as brilliant?
Fuck no! Only the most dedicated of musical historians even knows their names, unless you count Salieri, and that's mostly because of the (very historically inaccurate) movie.
Every generation produces both truly exceptional artists and mediocre to poor artists who are merely popular. The former are remembered with respect, and the latter are almost always forgotten except as "silly crap I like ironically because my grandparents thought it was cool".
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It's been 232 years since Mozart died, and we still love and honour him and his musical legacy. Does that mean every composer working in the 1700s was just as brilliant?
Fuck no! Only the most dedicated of musical historians even knows their names, unless you count Salieri, and that's mostly because of the (very historically inaccurate) movie.
Every generation produces both truly exceptional artists and mediocre to poor artists who are merely popular. The former are remembered with respect, and the latter are almost always forgotten except as "silly crap I like ironically because my grandparents thought it was cool".